Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India
Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India
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让印度小姐成为世界小姐：后自由化印度的性别、权力和国家建设
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10.5860/choice.46-3557
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2008
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Susan Dewey
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Susan Dewey
近半个世纪来，印度小姐比赛一直是印度流行文化的一个突出特点，随着时间的推移，影响了传统的女性美的标准。随着印度越来越多地参与全球经济，这一标准正逐渐受到该国境外力量的影响。苏珊·杜威的《让印度小姐成为世界小姐》通过2003年选美比赛这个出人意料的透镜，审视了在一个被最近的政治、经济和文化发展所改变的国家里，女性美意味着什么。杜威通过对参赛者高强度训练计划的讨论，为读者提供了一个近距离的选美比赛的视角，这个过程涉及广泛的身体、情感、和文化转型。从适当的餐桌礼仪到偏爱的肤色，作者揭示了选美官员制定的严格标准，并反映在印度社会。然而，她也认识到，这些妇女在一个越来越受到国家和国际媒体视觉影响的文化中作为美丽象征的地位赋予了她们权力。《让印度小姐成为世界小姐》是一个重要的文化批判，也是一个关于宏观经济变化如何影响个人文化认同的启发性观点。
For almost half a century, the Miss India competition has been a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. As India participates increasingly in a global economy, that standard is gradually being shaped by forces beyond the country's borders. Through the unexpected lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, Susan Dewey's "Making Miss India Miss World" examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by recent political, economic, and cultural developments.Dewey offers readers an up-close view of the beauty pageant through her discussion of the contestants' intense training program, a process that involves extensive physical, emotional, and cultural transformations. Covering everything from proper table etiquette to preferred skin tone, the author reveals the exacting standards set by pageant officials and reflected in Indian society. Yet she also recognizes the empowerment these women are afforded by their status as beauty symbols in a culture increasingly shaped by the visual influence of national and international media." Making Miss India Miss World" constitutes an important cultural critique and an enlightening take on how macroeconomic change affects cultural identity at the individual level.