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Skin Colour Politics = Whiteness and Beauty in India /
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正題名/作者:
Skin Colour Politics/ by Nina Kullrich.
其他題名:
Whiteness and Beauty in India /
作者:
Kullrich, Nina.
面頁冊數:
VIII, 268 p. 1 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:
Springer Nature eBook
標題:
Cultural Studies. -
電子資源:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64922-0
ISBN:
9783662649220
Skin Colour Politics = Whiteness and Beauty in India /
Kullrich, Nina.
Skin Colour Politics
Whiteness and Beauty in India /[electronic resource] :by Nina Kullrich. - 1st ed. 2022. - VIII, 268 p. 1 illus.online resource.
1 “In this Country, Beauty is defined by Fairness of Skin” -- 2 ‘Colourism’ in India within and beyond Colonialism Historically tracing Fair Skin as a locally embedded, yet transnational, colonially re-shaped and subversively contested signifier of social status and norm of beauty -- 3 Beauty as Project, Fairness as Product: ‘Skin Colour’ Management and Fairness Consumption in Post-colonial India -- 4 Shades of Fair, Shapes of Beauty, and Shifts of Status Narrating and Practising Skin Bleaching in Contemporary Delhi -- 5 Conclusion and Outlook.
The global practice of skin bleaching is predominantly understood as an internalized legacy of colonialism and an embodiment of Western ideals of beauty. This book offers a new perspective on fair skin preference in India: it challenges the assumption that desires for light skin are always a desire of whiteness. Rather than talking back to the colonial centre, skin colour politics reorganise and reinforce social distinctions in Indian societies, which are neither exclusively local nor global. Based on primary research conducted in Delhi, this multi-dimensional study shows how skin colour intersects with and reproduces other categories of social distinction – primarily gender, class, caste, race, region and religion. It historically embeds fairness as an Indian, precolonial yet transnational ideal of beauty. The bleached body emerges as an active and thus, potentially resistant part of negotiating social status within multiple power relations and complex beauty regimes. By mapping a whole geography of skin colours in India, this book shows how fair skin as a locally embedded beauty norm and whiteness as a global cultural imperative interrelate. About the Author Nina Kullrich graduated in cultural and literary studies and currently works as project coordinator for an NGO with a focus on global justice and intersectional feminisms.
ISBN: 9783662649220
Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-662-64922-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:
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