Making Miss Diva : idealizing femininity and new embodied nationalism in India

dc.contributor.authorRoy, Ahonaa
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-04T11:04:03Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper summarizes a narrative-based account of a beauty pageant in India that highlights gender-liminal representations and identities. The title of the pageant – Miss Diva – suggests the internationalization of beauty, body and aesthetics. This essay has three major aims: 1) to reveal the primacy of sexuality over gender that corresponds to gender pluralism and varied gender transgressive politics within the imperative of embodied desires; 2) to discuss the ‘local’ commercial conditions and how gender-liminal subjectivities are patterned within modernity’s commodified cultural representation which is pluralistic in nature; and 3) to envision beauty and representational politics within the vocabulary of the nation-based identity. This paper provides an account of the complex interconnections between the modern nation and its gender(ed) subjectivities, maintaining a balance between global/local standards.
dc.description.departmentSociology
dc.description.embargo2026-08-24
dc.description.librarianhj2025
dc.description.sdgSDG-05: Gender equality
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsap20
dc.identifier.citationAhonaa Roy (2024) Making Miss Diva: Idealizing femininity and new embodied nationalism in India, South Asian Popular Culture, 22:2, 321-332, DOI: 10.1080/14746689.2024.2437430.
dc.identifier.issn1474-6689 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1474-6697 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/14746689.2024.2437430
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/103188
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 321-332, 2024. doi : 10.1080/14746689.2024.2437430. South Asian Popular Culture is available online at : https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsap20.
dc.subjectBody and embodiment
dc.subjectCapital
dc.subjectBeauty pageants
dc.subjectCosmopolitanism
dc.subjectNationalism
dc.subjectGlobalization
dc.subjectIndia
dc.titleMaking Miss Diva : idealizing femininity and new embodied nationalism in India
dc.typePostprint Article

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