Beauty Queens on the Global Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty Queens on the Global Stage write by Colleen Ballerion Cohen. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Beauty Queens on the Global Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.
Beauty Queens
Beauty Queens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty Queens write by Libba Bray. This book was released on 2011-05-24. Beauty Queens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.
Beauty Diplomacy
Beauty Diplomacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty Diplomacy write by Oluwakemi M. Balogun. This book was released on 2019-12-17. Beauty Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drag Queens and Beauty Queens write by Laurie Greene. This book was released on 2020-12-18. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.
Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen
Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen write by Sabrina Billings. This book was released on 2013-11-29. Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.
