THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE GLOBAL INDIAN WOMAN
THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE GLOBAL INDIAN WOMAN
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全球印度女性的国有化
DOI：
10.1080/14746680600555691
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
0.3
通讯作者：
Vanita Reddy
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作者：
Vanita Reddy
本文探讨了印度发行量最大的英语女性杂志《女性》中各种关于印度女性美的图像文本。它认为，在《女性》中，种族（通过白人、棕色甚至印度人来衡量）和性别（通过规范的女性气质来衡量）介入了关于印度、西方和“世界”的某些认识论。为了解释这些“美丽的地理”，本文的第一部分展示了Femina在国家空间内绘制了印度女性的身体，也就是说，作为明确的“印度”。文章的第二部分转向通过和反对“西方”重新表达民族，作为一个必须被指定和否认的地理，以声称这个印度身体的全球性。在《女性》中，“美”不仅仅是一种身体属性;它是女性主体在几十年的全球化和民族沙文主义中转变为消费者主体（本质上也是印度人）的终极目标。
This article examines various image‐texts of Indian female beauty in Femina, India's most widely circulating English‐language women's magazine. It argues that in Femina, race (calibrated through whiteness, brownness and even Indianness) and gender (calibrated through normative femininity) intervene in certain epistemologies about India, the West and ‘the world’. In order to posit these ‘geographies of beauty,’ the first part of this article shows that Femina maps the Indian woman's body within nation‐space, that is, as definitively ‘Indian’. The second part of the article turns to the re‐articulation of the nation through and against the ‘West’ as a geography that must be designated and disavowed in order to claim the globality of this Indian body. In Femina, ‘beauty’ is more than a physical attribute; it is a telos toward which the female subject, transformed into a consumer subject and also essentially Indian, moves through these decades of globalisation and national chauvinism.