Beauty Queens on the Global Stage : Gender, Contests, and Power
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415911532
ISBN-13
9780415911535
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 13th, 1995
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.90 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesGender studies: women
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Highlights the wide range of cultural notions of beauty and femininity, discusses the ways gender ideologies are represented and reinforced and examines the strategic and political uses to which contests are put by contestants and sposors alike.
Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.
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