Freedom and Destiny Gender, Family, and Popular Culture in India by Patricia Uberoi ISBN 13: 9780195679915

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New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Pres, 2006. Hardcover. Near fine(+) with extremely minor edge wear to boards and jacket. Jacket housed in archival mylar and about near fine(+) although, due to previous sticker residue, front jacket flap is adhered to front paste-down. in fine dust-jacket. Octavo in duotone green jacket illus un color (front); xix, 309 pages: chiefly color illustrations; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 264-299) and index. "This volume of seven essays on themes of family and gender in Indian popular culture seeks to commend popular culture as an important resource for sociological insights into contemporary social issues and processes. Drawing its material from three popular media - 'calendar art' (popular chromolithography), commercial 'Bollywood' cinema, and magazine romance fiction - the essays bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on the representation of the family, of childhood, of courtship and conjugality, of arranged and love marriage, of femininity and… Read More

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