A Critical Discourse Analysis of South Asian Women's Magazines : Undercover Beauty

• Main Author: McLoughlin, Linda. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: časopisy pro ženy > sociální aspekty; ženy > 21. století > Asie jižní; společenský život > 21. století > Asie jižní; zvyky a obyčeje > 21. století > Asie jižní; women’s magazines > social aspects; women > 21st century > Asia, Southern; social life > 21st century > Asia, Southern; manners and customs > 21st century > Asia, Southern; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9781137398789
• Physical Description: IX, 263 p. 4 illus. in color. online resource.

This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women's lifestyle magazines, exposing the disconnection between the magazines' representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience. The author challenges the notion that disco...