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Most Beautiful Girl in the World Beauty Pageants and National Identity

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ISBN-10: 0520217918

ISBN-13: 9780520217911

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sarah Banet-Weiser

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Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political…    
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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.22" wide x 8.90" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"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 Myerson, Miss America 1945, and Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995
International Spectacles, National Borders: Miss Universe and the "Family of Nations"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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