ABSTRACT

This is an ambitious study of gender and politics in India, and will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, globalization, postcolonialism, geography, media studies, and cultural studies, as well as India more generally.

chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|34 pages

Cartographic Anxiety 1

Television Censorship and Border Controls

chapter 4|23 pages

Showcasing India

Sexuality and the Nation in the 1996 Miss World Pageant

chapter 5|31 pages

Nuclear Tests and National Virility

Gender and Sexual Politics of Militarization

chapter 6|6 pages

Epilogue