The most beautiful girl in the world : beauty pageants and national identity /

Annotation.

গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রধান লেখক: Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966-
বিন্যাস: Licensed eBooks
ভাষা:ইংরেজি
প্রকাশিত: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=42138
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
  • "A certain class of girl": respectability and the structure of the Miss America Pageant
  • Anatomy of a beauty pageant: the swimsuit competition
  • "If you were a color, what color would you be?": the interview and talent competitions in the Miss America pageant
  • Bodies of difference: race, nation, and the troubled reign of Vanessa Williams
  • The representational politics of whiteness and the national body: Bess Meyerson, Miss America 1945, and Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995
  • International spectacles, national borders: Miss Universe and the "family of nationals"
  • Conclusion.