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Aestheticising the Woman’s Body: J Devika

August 31, 2020 jdevika2 Comments

[This is an excerpt from an earlier version of my research article “The Aesthetic Woman: Re-Forming Female Bodies and Minds in Early Twentieth-Century Keralam.” Modern Asian Studies 39, no. 2 (2005): 461-87.] Continue reading “Aestheticising the Woman’s Body: J Devika” →

Posted in HistoryTagged bare-breastedness in Kerala, dress-reform in Kerala, Female Body in Malayali modernity
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