Showcasing India: Gender, geography, and globalization

Signs

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1066-1095

  Oza, Rupal ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; ESTHETICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HISTORY; INDIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL STATUS;

BEAUTY; BEAUTY CULTURE; COLONIALISM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMINISM; HINDUISM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; INDIA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; WOMEN;

EID: 33748380355     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495648     Document Type: Article

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