Refashioning India : gender, media, and a transformed public discourse /

Chaudhuri, Maitrayee

Refashioning India : gender, media, and a transformed public discourse / Maitrayee Chaudhuri - India Orient BlackSwan 2017 - 325 p.

In 1991, the Indian state’s new economic policies led to a greater role of the market. A public discourse that had till then been defined by self-reliance, equity and austerity had to be refashioned. The Indian middle class learnt that ‘thrift’ was not a virtue and ‘shopping was legitimate pleasure’. This book details how consumerism, combined with ideas of individualism, empowerment and choice in a contemporary public culture, paved the way for an instant, feel-good and then aggressive nationalism. Refashioning India maps this process through a compilation of the author’s works, written at different points in time from the early 1990s, through the next two decades up to mid-2017.

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Mass media and public opinion
Mass media and women
Women--Crimes against

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