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A Critical Discourse Analysis of South Asian Women's Magazines Undercover Beauty

This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women’s lifestyle magazines, exposing the disconnection between the magazines’ representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience. The author challenges the notion that discourses of f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLoughlin, Linda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Subjects:
Communication
Media And Communication
Research Methods In Language And Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Race And Ethnicity Studies
Linguistics / Methodology
Race
Gender Studies
Sex
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • - Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Orienting the reader – the legacy of colonialism and cultural imperialism
  • Chapter 3. The Aesthetics of beauty – commodification
  • Chapter 4. For the woman who wants the world – commodified feminism
  • Chapter 5. East meets West – cultural hybridity
  • Chapter 6. Men’s voices in women’s magazines
  • Chapter 7. Readers’ responses – multi-vocal expressions of identity
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion

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