Of marriages and families: clothing the marriageable Tamil woman
The secondary role played by women in Tamil films – both on and off screen – has been widely discussed in journalistic circles and academia. Nair’s assertion that in Indian films ‘women exist only in relation to the men, as their mothers, their wives, and especially their lovers’ is true of Tamil fi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh Library
2013-12-01
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Series: | The South Asianist |
Online Access: | http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/172 |