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Queens of Academe - Beauty Pageants and Campus Life (Paperback, New)
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Queens of Academe - Beauty Pageants and Campus Life (Paperback, New)
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Universities are unlikely venues for grading, branding, and
marketing beauty, bodies, poise, and style. Nonetheless, thousands
of college women have sought not only college diplomas but campus
beauty titles and tiaras throughout the twentieth century. The
cultural power of beauty pageants continues today as campus beauty
pageants, especially racial and ethnic pageants and pageants for
men, have soared in popularity. In Queens of Academe, Karen W. Tice
asks how, and why, does higher education remain in the beauty and
body business and with what effects on student bodies and
identities. She explores why students compete in and attend
pageants such as "Miss Pride" and "Best Bodies on Campus" as well
as why websites such as "Campus Chic" and campus-based etiquette
and charm schools are flourishing. Based on archival research and
interviews with contemporary campus queens and university sponsors
as well as hundreds of hours observing college pageants on
predominantly black and white campuses, Tice examines how campus
pageant contestants express personal ambitions, desires, and,
sometimes, racial and political agendas to resolve the
incongruities of performing in evening gowns and bathing suits on
stage while seeking their degrees. Tice argues the pageants help to
illuminate the shifting terrain of class, race, religion,
sexuality, and gender braided in campus rituals and student life.
Moving beyond a binary of objectification versus empowerment, Tice
offers a nuanced analysis of the contradictory politics of
education, feminism, empowerment, consumerism, race and ethnicity,
class, and popular culture have on students, idealized
masculinities and femininities, and the stylization of higher
education itself.
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