Making Miss Diva : idealizing femininity and new embodied nationalism in India
dc.contributor.author | Roy, Ahonaa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-04T11:04:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.department | Sociology | |
dc.description.embargo | 2026-08-24 | |
dc.description.librarian | hj2025 | |
dc.description.sdg | SDG-05: Gender equality | |
dc.description.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsap20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ahonaa 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.issn | 1474-6689 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1474-6697 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1080/14746689.2024.2437430 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103188 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Routledge | |
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.subject | Body and embodiment | |
dc.subject | Capital | |
dc.subject | Beauty pageants | |
dc.subject | Cosmopolitanism | |
dc.subject | Nationalism | |
dc.subject | Globalization | |
dc.subject | India | |
dc.title | Making Miss Diva : idealizing femininity and new embodied nationalism in India | |
dc.type | Postprint Article |
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