Gender and Popular Visual Culture in India : Benevolent Sexism and Disguised Discrimination

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gender and Popular Visual Culture in IndiaBenevolent Sexism and Disguised Discrimination\nAuthor(s): Francis Philip Barclay, Kaifia Ancer Laskar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032561448, 978-1032561448\nSynopsis\nPerhaps, male-mindedness seems to have adapted to changing-contemporary circumstances to become more covert and conspiratorial. Sexist suggestionsthrough objectification and substantiated subordinationfor instance, may have been explicit in Indian media a decade earlier. But in the contemporary times of online social media and vociferous feminism, such openness of unfairness against women in the media will, more often than not, be met with strife and unpalatable backlash - fearing which blatant prejudice is prudently steered clear of. It is, hence, understandable that patriarchy, to sustain itself as a culture, has adapted to become more benevolent in an increasingly hostile environment. To identify su.