Book Review: Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture, by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg (eds.)
Book Review: Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture, by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg (eds.)

Summary/Abstract: In the postmillennial era, Indian academia has produced several books, anthologies and scholarly articles on women, highlighting their discrimination in various spheres of life, providing possible solutions for their empowerment, and emphasizing the contemporary complexities with regard to body, gender and sexuality. However, when it comes to female body and the body image/beauty standards, there is barely sufficient academic material available on the issue. The book Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture (2024), edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg and published by Temple University Press is the recent addition that deals with the politics of beauty in contemporary Indian literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on female body image.

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