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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
- Purnima Mankekar
- Sociology
- 10 December 1999
In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class… Expand
national texts and gendered lives: an ethnography of television viewers in a North Indian city
- Purnima Mankekar
- Sociology
- 1 August 1993
Recent anthropological research highlights the significance of mass media in the construction of identities. This article focuses on the ways in which men and women, located in specific sociocultural… Expand
Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's ‘Disrobing’
- Purnima Mankekar
- Sociology
- 1 September 1993
Gender Differences and Performance in Science
- C. Muller, S. Ride, +76 authors S. Robinson
- Medicine
- Science
- 18 February 2005
On 14 Jan., Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, speaking at a meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggested that since fewer girls than boys have top scores on science and… Expand
'India Shopping': Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging
- Purnima Mankekar
- Sociology
- 1 January 2002
How do representations of 'India' shape the lives of members of a diasporic community, the identities they forge, and the politics they negotiate? This paper examines how grocery stores in the San… Expand
Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late Twentieth-Century India
- Purnima Mankekar
- History
- 1 May 2004
DURING THE 1990s, THE INDIAN PUBLIC SPHERE witnessed a proliferation of representations of erotics.' Some of the eruption of the erotic into the public has been attributed to the expansion of… Expand
Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film
- Purnima Mankekar
- Sociology
- 1 August 1999
Screening culture, viewing politics : television, womanhood, and nation in modern India
- Purnima Mankekar
- Political Science
- 1999
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Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality
- Purnima Mankekar
- Geography
- 30 January 2015
Acknowledgments ix 1. Unsettlement 1 2. Moving Images: Reconceptualizing Indianness in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge 39 3. Affective Objects: India Shopping in the San Francisco Bay Area 71 4.… Expand
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‘We are like this only’: aspiration, jugaad, and love in enterprise culture
- Purnima Mankekar
- Business
- 30 October 2013