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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Female Body Image and the Politics of Appearance in Contemporary India
  7. Part I: Bodies on the Margins: “Othering,” Hegemonic Beauty Norms, and Female Bodies
    1. 1. Imag(in)ing the Dalit Woman: Body Image and Identity in Bama’s Sangati
    2. 2. Bodies at Surveillance: Appearance, Social Control, and Female Body Image in India’s Postmillennial Lesbian and Trans Narratives
  8. Part II: Reflections on Beauty Politics: Gender and Body Image in the Works of Contemporary Indian Women Writers
    1. 3. Writing Woman / Woman Writing: Shashi Deshpande and the Aesthetics of the Female Body
    2. 4. Manjula Padmanabhan and the Question of Problematizing Embodied Gender Identity: A Reading of Getting There
    3. 5. Future Forms: Female Body Image in Indian Dystopian Fiction
  9. Part III: Alternate Beauties? Disabled and Disfigured Female Bodies in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture
    1. 6. Fitting In When Your Body Does Not: Young Girl Characters with Disabilities in Contemporary Indian English Fiction for Children
    2. 7. Pathologies of “Body Fictions”: A Comparative Study of Margarita with a Straw and Kuch Bheege Alfaaz
  10. Part IV: Scopophilic Cultures: Female Body Image in Contemporary Indian Cinema
    1. 8. Unjust Gradations of Fairness: Gender, Looks, and Colorism in Postmillennial Hindi Cinema
    2. 9. Fetishism, Scopophilia, and the Fat Actresses of Bhojpuri Cinema
  11. Part V: Neoliberal Cultures and Female Body Image in Indian Advertisements and Popular Media
    1. 10. Gender, Body Image, and the Aspirational Middle-Class Imaginary of Indian Advertising
    2. 11. Unpacking Compliances and Resistances in the Indian Yummy Mummy
    3. 12. “Hey! She’s a Bro!”: Tomboys, Body Image, and Desire in India
  12. Conclusion: Womanhood and Body Positivity: Problems, Possibilities, and Promises
  13. Further Reading
  14. Contributors
  15. Index

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

tupress.temple.edu

Copyright © 2024 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education

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Published 2024

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chatterjee, Srirupa, 1979– editor. | Garg, Shweta Rao, 1982– editor.

Title: Female body image and beauty politics in contemporary Indian literature and culture / edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg.

Description: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Using a Humanistic Cultural Studies approach, this edited volume is the first book-length study of its kind to offer insights on the myriad representations and conceptualizations of women’s body image in contemporary India”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023042568 (print) | LCCN 2023042569 (ebook) | ISBN 9781439922514 (cloth) | ISBN 9781439922521 (paperback) | ISBN 9781439922538 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Body image in women—India. | Beauty, Personal—Political aspects—India. | Women in popular culture—India. | Physical-appearance-based bias—India. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration

Classification: LCC BF697.5.B63 F63 2024 (print) | LCC BF697.5.B63 (ebook) | DDC 306.4/6130954—dc23/eng/20240130

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023042568

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023042569

The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992

Printed in the United States of America

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