Beauty Queens and Hindu Militants: Indian Women’s Negotiation with Neoliberalism and Hindu Nationalism
Through a review of the 2012 documentary film The World before Her directed by Nisha Pahuja, this article provides a critical reflection on how neoliberal governmentality appropriates women’s bodies and subjectivities in two women’s boot camps in India: the Miss India contest and the Hindu militant...
Main Authors: | Nazia Hussein, Saba Hussain |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Warwick
2016-04-01
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Series: | Exchanges |
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Online Access: | https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/article/view/136 |
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