(Mobile ebook) The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity






 | #1922280 in Books |  University of California Press |  1999-09-30 |  1999-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.76 x6.00l,1.10 | File Name: 0520217918 | 290 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Banet-Weiser is successful in arguing for the importance of the beauty pageant as a site for cultural work|By Tova Johnson|With The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity, Sarah Banet-Weiser takes scholars to task for not treating beauty pageants with the intellectual attention they deserve. Beauty pageants, she argues, are far from the anach| |"A book that illuminates the beauty pageant as one of the best places to view the tensions surrounding the construction of gender. . . . A thoughful and readable book. Scholars interested in the dynamics of gender and race in popular culture will find the boo

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 st...


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