{"title":"Mythology and Reality TV: Storytelling and Feminist Agency in the Ramayana and The Real Housewives","authors":"Elisa Madina","doi":"10.1177/01417789231156519","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Real Housewives follows the lives of wealthy, middle-aged women in different towns in the USA and beyond. The TV show documents the women navigating their overlapping family, professional and over-the-top social lives over long lunches and charity galas. Sita is a character in one of the bestloved stories of all time, the Ramayana, or the story of her husband Rama. In a nutshell, Princess Sita is kidnapped by evil Ravana and after a blockbuster battle is rescued by her husband, Prince Rama, who eventually pronounces her impure and rejects her. The epic poem has been immortalised through countless written, oral and performed versions across South Asia and beyond.1","PeriodicalId":47487,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Review","volume":"134 1","pages":"104 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Feminist Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231156519","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"WOMENS STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Real Housewives follows the lives of wealthy, middle-aged women in different towns in the USA and beyond. The TV show documents the women navigating their overlapping family, professional and over-the-top social lives over long lunches and charity galas. Sita is a character in one of the bestloved stories of all time, the Ramayana, or the story of her husband Rama. In a nutshell, Princess Sita is kidnapped by evil Ravana and after a blockbuster battle is rescued by her husband, Prince Rama, who eventually pronounces her impure and rejects her. The epic poem has been immortalised through countless written, oral and performed versions across South Asia and beyond.1
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Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for the analysis of the social world. Currently based in London with an international scope, FR invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations. The FR Collective is committed to exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships. As well as academic articles we publish experimental pieces, visual and textual media and political interventions, including, for example, interviews, short stories, poems and photographic essays.
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