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work_qbowz2idifasbnjrrkvmpnt2ai	Daniela Gutiérrez López	fashioning diaspora: beauty, femininity, and South Asian American culture	2017	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1375	70	45	fashioning diaspora: beauty, femininity, and South Asian Vanita Reddy, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2016, 280pp., ISBN: 978-1-4399-1154-9, $84.50 (Hbk)/ Vanita Reddy assembles and analyses a multi-format archive in Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Indian, and South Asian diasporic literary texts, movies and live performances, Reddy provides insights on how beauty and fashion make space for new racialised subject formations, feminist and Resonating with queer South Asian diaspora studies scholar Gayatri Reddy explains that both beauty and fashion often seem to be ideal technologies of the neoliberal market, where individualism, self-care and fitness, and consumer citizenship reign. In the later chapters of her book, Reddy tackles other embodiments of beauty beyond the bodies and one another, Reddy's book intervenes in the fields of diaspora and postcolonial studies, critical fashion fashioning diaspora: beauty, femininity, and South Asian American culture fashioning diaspora: beauty, femininity, and South Asian American culture	./cache/work_qbowz2idifasbnjrrkvmpnt2ai.pdf	./txt/work_qbowz2idifasbnjrrkvmpnt2ai.txt