The most beautiful girl in the world : beauty pageants and national identity /
Annotation.
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| Formáid: | Licensed eBooks |
| Teanga: | Béarla |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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| Rochtain ar líne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=42138 |
Clár na nÁbhar:
- "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.