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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This paper utilises the case study of the recent Miss Chechen Beauty pageant in order to discuss the ways in which gendered discourses and practices have affected the situation of women in the post-war Chechen Republic. Although, on the surface, they appear to have little in common, the paper draws on connections between women's bodies and nation-states in order examine practices such as beauty pageants, honor killings, and government-enforced modesty campaigns that are currently taking place in the republic. Ultimately, the paper argues that beauty contests and modesty campaigns share in common the fact that they are being utilised by the state to relegate women to private spaces and to re-enforce gender hierarchies in the aftermath of two brutal conflicts
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