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Book Synopsis Miss America Through the Looking Glass by : Nancie S. Martin
Download or read book Miss America Through the Looking Glass written by Nancie S. Martin and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the Miss America Pageant, how it is judged, what contestants go through, and how their lives are affected.
Book Synopsis Through the Looking Glass by : Lewis Carroll
Download or read book Through the Looking Glass written by Lewis Carroll and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the country beyond the looking glass, where everything is reversed, Alice meets the red queen and other chessmen. Sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". Grades 4-7. 1915.
Download or read book Mr. America written by John D. Fair and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle.
Book Synopsis The Most Beautiful Girl in the World by : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Download or read book The Most Beautiful Girl in the World written by Sarah Banet-Weiser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.
Book Synopsis Through the Looking Glass by : Selma G. Lanes
Download or read book Through the Looking Glass written by Selma G. Lanes and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer & CRITIC with a broad grasp of her subject, an acute eye for talent (and occasionally genius), and a sure prose style, Selma Lanes is our grande dame of children's literature. She wrote the definitive book on Maurice Sendak. She has contributed countless articles on the primary protagonists and players in the field, many published in her previous book, Down the Rabbit Hole. This new collection includes further essays on the masters she most admires: Sendak, Steig, Gorey, L. Frank Baum, Tomi Ungerer, Jack Keats, Margot Zemach, and one editor of genius, Ursula Nordstrom. What concerns Lanes most is the integration of text and image, the abilities of authors and artists of picture books to somehow change our perceptions. In a larger sense, she asks, What makes some children's books work and others fail? How does art for the young reflect, distort or create a social perspective? Earlier she observed, With the possible exception of advertising and film, no popular medium in our time has been as experimental, inventive, and simply alive as children's books. In the present atmosphere of mergers and corporate conglomerates that now define mainstream publishing, she wonders if this remains true. Is the field still dominated, as formerly, by a devoted cadre of geniuses able to spot and encourage talent, willing to take risks, and ferocious in their desire to bring children the best that authors and illustrators have to offer? This book provides her answers, as well as affectionate salutes to the writers and artists whose work deserves to be remembered.
Book Synopsis "There She Is, Miss America" by : Elwood Watson
Download or read book "There She Is, Miss America" written by Elwood Watson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Miss America written by Daniel Stern and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former pageant queen struggles with the realities of life off the runway in a novel “reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned” (The State News, Lansing). After being crowned Miss America a decade ago, Cathy Forester has been in some glamorous settings—but she has little to show for it. She’s endured a string of failed loves, a divorce, and the death of her parents. Restless by temperament, Cathy thinks she may have found a new life with a younger man, Peter Shaw. Peter is the son of a famous musician and is still battling to come into his own. Smitten by Cathy’s beauty, he jumps at the chance to step out of his father’s shadow. Together, the pair finds solace from the outside world, but have their frailties really disappeared? Ringing with authentic intimacy, Miss America is a powerful study of disenchanted love.
Book Synopsis Here She Is by : Hilary Levey Friedman
Download or read book Here She Is written by Hilary Levey Friedman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.
Book Synopsis Drag Queens and Beauty Queens by : Laurie Greene
Download or read book Drag Queens and Beauty Queens written by Laurie Greene and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pageants and pageantry -- Atlantic City, drag culture, and a community of practice -- New York avenue: where the party began -- Camp and the queering of Miss America -- Show us your shoes, not your midriffs.
Book Synopsis The Looking Glass Wars by : Frank Beddor
Download or read book The Looking Glass Wars written by Frank Beddor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss? parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
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Book Synopsis Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American authors to be rendered into French, and also passages translated from French contemporary writers to be reproduced into the original text, by A. Mariette by : Alphonse Mariette
Download or read book Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American authors to be rendered into French, and also passages translated from French contemporary writers to be reproduced into the original text, by A. Mariette written by Alphonse Mariette and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Crowning Identities by : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Download or read book Crowning Identities written by Sarah Banet-Weiser and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons by : Lynn Peril
Download or read book Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons written by Lynn Peril and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly illustrated with photos of vintage paraphernalia, this entertaining social history revisits the nostalgic past, but only to offer a refreshing message to women who lived through those years as well as those who are coming of age now. 45 b&w illustrations. of color.
Book Synopsis Live from Atlantic City by : Armando Riverol
Download or read book Live from Atlantic City written by Armando Riverol and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the pageant's history from its inception in 1920 through its emergence as American popular culture icon, not only chronicling events but presenting two opposing perspectives on the pageant: the pageant as celebration and idealization of American womanhood, and the pageant as sexist, exploitative anachronism. With 25 pages of bandw photographs. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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