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Beauty Queens on the Global Stage - Gender, Contests, and Power (Paperback, New)
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Beauty Queens on the Global Stage - Gender, Contests, and Power (Paperback, New)
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Beauty pageants--as competition and performance--are wildly popular
cultural events world-wide. They have, however, received
surprisingly little scholarly attention. What literature there is
on beauty pageants has mostly been limited to American pageants.
This collection brings together studies of pageants in fourteen
different cultures. The chapters range from studies of community
queen pageants in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Andalusia and rural
Minnesota, to studies of international contests held in Thailand,
Belize, British Virgin Islands, Tonga and Tibet, and include a
study of a Moslem Philippine transsexual beauty queen contest, and
an ethnographic account by a contestant in the Miss Moscow 1989
pageant.
These essays discuss the ways gender ideologies are represented
and reinforced in beauty pageants and highlight the cultural
specificity of notions of beauty and femininity that figure in the
selection of pageant queens. We see the strategic and political
uses to which pageants are put, by sponsors and contestants alike.
Questions of gender aesthetics, performance, and display are
engaged in a way that recognizes the agency of pageant participants
even as it underscores the ideologies and structures of power
within which they operate.
"Beauty Queens on the Global Stage" considers beauty contests as
key sites for formulating, negotiating and challenging national and
group identities, and shows how identity is portrayed and utilized
in an international arena. Each of these essays looks at beauty
pageants and contestants in the broader context of struggles over
identity.
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