GENDERED REPRESENTATIONS IN EASTERN CULTURAL PRODUCTION: CONSTRUCT OF THE INDIGENOUS WOMAN GAURI IN LAGAAN AND THE IMPACTS OF NATIONALISM AND CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION ON SOUTH ASIAN WOMANHOOD

Gendered Representations in Eastern Cultural Production: Construct of the Indigenous Woman Gauri in Lagaan and the Impacts of Nationalism and Cultural Globalization on South Asian Womanhood

Feminine subjectivity in Bollywood films is constructed by film-makers and by the demand of audience fantasies as a miraculous mixture of contradictions.Is this traditional or transnational? Female constructs such as Gauri (the protagonist of Lagaan) expose traditional dichotomies deeply embedded in Indian culture.Women aspire to be powerless victi

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Wide range screening of algorithmic bias in word embedding models using large sentiment lexicons reveals underreported bias types.

Concerns about gender bias in word embedding models have captured substantial attention in the algorithmic bias research literature.Other bias types however have received lesser amounts of scrutiny.This work describes a large-scale analysis of sentiment associations in popular word embedding models along the lines of Bike Units - Adult Trike gender

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