Overview
- Critiques hegemonic constructions of female beauty and femininity in South Asian Women’s magazines
- Uses commodification to examine media representations of female agency and feminist consciousness
- Analyses the propagation of identities to serve the interests of global consumer capitalism
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality (PSLGS)
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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 freedom and choice employed by women’s magazines are emancipatory, demonstrating instead that the version of feminism on offer is a commodified form which accords with the commercial aims of the publications. McLoughlin demonstrates that whilst British magazines present women in the East as the exotic and culturally superior ‘Other’, women in India are encouraged to emulate Western women to signify their engagement with globalization and modernity. She uses data from focus groups carried out in both countries to illustrate the interpretive frameworks and multivocality of participants’ attitudes, experiences and beliefs. This thought-provoking book will appeal to students and researchers of Language and Linguistics, Women’s Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Linda McLoughlin is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She specializes in Language, Gender and Sexuality and Critical Discourse Analysis. She is the author of The Language of Magazines (2000) and has appeared on BBC radio talking about her research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Critical Discourse Analysis of South Asian Women's Magazines
Book Subtitle: Undercover Beauty
Authors: Linda McLoughlin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39878-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39877-2Published: 20 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39878-9Published: 03 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-9169
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9177
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 263
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Media Studies