Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power - Trailer Park Royalty (Paperback, New edition)

Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty explores the phenomenon of child beauty pageants in rural communities throughout the American South. In a bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnographies, critical hermeneutics, and cultural studies lenses, this book analyzes how the performance of participants-most from a lower socio-economic bracket-and the power exercised by beauty pageant culture work to formulate girls' identities. Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power also examines how depictions in popular culture through film, videos, documentaries, and television shows add to the dialogue. Author Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy suggests rural pageant culture works to create girlhood identity and shapes the way participants view the world and themselves-through intricate cultural work in terms of gender and class. This book is intended for students and teachers who are interested in dissecting rural girlhood and development, Southern American beauty standards, and the effect of the media on girls' identities.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Counterpoints, 522
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-1347-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-1347-3
Barcode:	9781433113475

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