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Hussein, Nazia and Hussain, Saba (2016) Beauty queens and Hindu militants : Indian women’s negotiation with neoliberalism and Hindu nationalism. Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal, 3 (2). pp. 227-240. doi:10.31273/eirj.v3i2.136 ISSN 2053-9665.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v3i2.136
Abstract
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 Durga Vahini camp. Studies on appropriation of women’s bodies in the neoliberal ideology of the market and in varied religious ideologies have generated rich feminist insights into the structures of women’s oppression across the world. Feminist academic research has traditionally looked at market- and religion-based oppressions separately. In this critical reflection we articulate how women’s bodies get incorporated into the service of varied ideologies, namely neoliberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism, through processes of ritualisation, responsibilisation and subjectivation. Drawing on the shared elements of neoliberal (capitalism) and Hindutwa (Hindu fundamentalism) ideological projects, this article proposes a renewed analysis of the location of women in various ideological projects and the nature of women’s negotiation of these power structures or women’s agency within these structures.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Beauty contests -- India, Neoliberalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism, Pahuja, Nisha -- Criticism and interpretation, Women -- India -- Social conditions -- 21st century, Religious fundamentalism -- India , Hindutva, India -- Social life and customs -- 21st century | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Institute of Advanced Study | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2053-9665 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 3 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 227-240 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.31273/eirj.v3i2.136 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 December 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 December 2017 | ||||||||
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