Queen for a Day Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela

Name: Queen for a Day Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
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ISBN: 9780822356264

ISBN-10: 0822356260

ISBN-13: 9780822356264

Edition: 2014

Authors: Marcia Ochoa, Diane M. Nelson

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Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English