A Woman With 17 - Adornment
A Woman With 17 - Adornment

Author: Anita Roy Mandal

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2022-10-28

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 9356975213

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“Sarva Mangala Mangalye Sive Sarvartha Sadhike Saranye Trayambike Gauri Narayani Namostute” “We see the image of Maa Durga wearing 17-adornment”, which we usually ignore or do not notice. Prerna follows and adorns herself with the 17th Adornment in her marriage which Maa Durga always wear. The story tells how the Prerna journey performs and how she fights against society’s mindset. During the journey, she meets two important women, one of them inspiring her and the other one she fights against the powerful politician and her family. In this story, lots of drama and emotional surprises we feel with a beautiful message in it. “If I Dare To Bear, Then I Dare to Destroy too”

Maoist Model Theatre
Maoist Model Theatre

Author: Rosemary A. Roberts

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9004177442

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Here is a convincing reflection that changes our understanding of gender in Maoist culture, esp. for what critics from the 1990s onwards have termed its erasure of gender and sexuality. In particular the strong heroines of the yangbanxi, or model works which dominated the Cultural Revolution period, have been seen as genderless revolutionaries whose images were damaging to women. Drawing on contemporary theories ranging from literary and cultural studies to sociology, this book challenges that established view through detailed semiotic analysis of theatrical systems of the yangbanxi including costume, props, kinesics, and various audio and linguistic systems. Acknowledging the complex interplay of traditional, modern, Chinese and foreign gender ideologies as manifest in the 'model works', it fundamentally changes our insights into gender in Maoist culture.

Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity
Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

Author: Dr Alicia J Batten

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-08-28

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1472423348

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The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on dress in the ancient world. These recent studies have established the extent to which Greece and Rome were vestimentary cultures, and they have demonstrated the critical role dress played in communicating individuals’ identities, status, and authority. Despite this emerging interest in ancient dress, little work has been done to understand religious aspects and uses of dress. This volume aims to fill this gap by examining a diverse range of religious sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage, economic markets, and memories. Employing theoretical frames from a range of disciplines, contributors to the volume demonstrate how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian rhetoric, symbolism, and performance from the first century BCE to the fifth century CE. Specifically, they demonstrate how religious meanings were entangled with other social logics, revealing the many layers of meaning attached to ancient dress, as well as the extent to which dress was implicated in numerous domains of ancient religious life.

Appearance and Identity
Appearance and Identity

Author: L. Negrin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-08

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0230617182

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This book casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society. It addresses various aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries.