A battleground of scars: Acid violence against women and girls in Indian news media

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dc.contributor.advisorBeins, Agatha
dc.contributor.advisorSahlin, Claire L.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLinda Marshall
dc.creatorGovindnathan, Pallavi 1981-
dc.creator.orcid0009-0008-9488-4412
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-07T19:39:54Z
dc.date.available2024-06-07T19:39:54Z
dc.date.created2024-05
dc.date.issued2024-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2024
dc.date.updated2024-06-07T19:39:55Z
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the representations of masculine and feminine honor tropes as they appear within reports of acid attack cases in mainstream Indian newspapers. While examining modern-day news reports on acid attacks, the study simultaneously interprets the influence of Hindu Brahmanical patriarchy through ancient scriptural analysis to decipher the types of violent patterns that are revealed in acid attack reports. Through the process of analyzing socio-cultural, caste and honor-based dictums of hierarchies molded together through ancient Brahmanical scriptural history and combining it with the analysis of modern-day capitalist socio-cultural shifts emerging in India, the study reveals the intricately knotted ascendancy of suppressive gender and honor codes and ideologies that continue to govern and dictate the lives of Indians today. This analysis is done so through the study of explicit and implicit masculine and honor tropes that exist in the news media and discloses how violence can be promoted and justified through journalism.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/16197
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.subjectGender Studies
dc.subject.otheracid attacks
dc.subject.otherviolence against women
dc.subject.otherSouth Asia
dc.subject.otherIndia
dc.subject.othernews media
dc.subject.otheracid violence
dc.titleA battleground of scars: Acid violence against women and girls in Indian news media
dc.typeThesis
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thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Arts and Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentLanguage, Culture, and Gender Studies
thesis.degree.disciplineMulticultural Women's and Gender Studies
thesis.degree.grantorTexas Woman's University
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.programMLA 9th edtion
thesis.degree.schoolTexas Woman's University

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