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Author : Edward Verrall Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Pageant written by Edward Verrall Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of extracts concerning women.
Author : Edward Verrall Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Pageant written by Edward Verrall Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E 1868-1938 Lucas
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781356305070
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Pageant written by E 1868-1938 Lucas and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Blain Roberts
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614219
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women written by Blain Roberts and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s, black-owned beauty shops served as crucial sites of resistance for civil rights activists. In these times of strained relations in the South, beauty became a signifier of power and affluence while it reinforced racial strife. Roberts examines a range of beauty products, practices, and rituals--cosmetics, hairdressing, clothing, and beauty contests--in settings that range from tobacco farms of the Great Depression to 1950s and 1960s college campuses. In so doing, she uncovers the role of female beauty in the economic and cultural modernization of the South. By showing how battles over beauty came to a head during the civil rights movement, Roberts sheds new light on the tactics southerners used to resist and achieve desegregation.
Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080708364X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
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.
Author : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922603
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
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.
Author : Cicely Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Pageant of Great Women written by Cicely Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann-Marie Bivans
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806516431
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)
Download or read book 101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants written by Ann-Marie Bivans and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents advice on the best attitude, clothes and accessories, and performance techniques for beauty pageant competition
Author : Cicely Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A Pageant of Great Women written by Cicely Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kimberly Brown Pellum PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439668914
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Black Beauties written by Kimberly Brown Pellum PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beauty pageants created a distinctive and celebrated cultural tradition during some of the most dismal times in the country's racial history. With the rise of the civil rights and Black Pride movements, pageantry also represented a component of social activism. Professor Kimberly Pellum explores this glamourous and profound history with contributions by dozens of former contestants who share their personal experiences.
Author : Cherie Bennett
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425163771
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Southern Girls written by Cherie Bennett and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What girl wouldn't want to be the first Miss Teen Spirit? "Teen Spirit" magazine wants a real girl to wear the crown, and thousands of real girls will compete for the scholarship, prizes, cash and fame that could launch their future. It's sweethearts and broken hearts, friendship and romance, cheers and tears, as we follow the contestants in the first of four regional pageants on the road to the national pageant. By the bestselling author of "Trash" and "Sunset Island".
Author : Barbara Robinson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573617454
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever written by Barbara Robinson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ladies' Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Libba Bray
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545388716
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Beauty Queens written by Libba Bray and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Susan Anderson
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576875148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (751 download)
Download or read book High Glitz written by Susan Anderson and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at America's child beauty pagaents. The vibrant portraits of these young contestants twist notions of sexuality and identity, exposing a new perspective on a uniquely American subculture. High Glitz is a subgenre of pagaents characterised by couture costumes,glamour make-up, elaborate hair styles and even dental veneers. The girls are spray-tanned, made-up and groomed to glossy perfection. Anderson captures the results of this time-consuming and often unnerving endeavour in exquisite detail.
Author : E. Watson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981825
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book “There She Is, Miss America” written by E. Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some see the Miss American Pageant as hokey vestige of another era, many remain enthralled by the annual Atlantic City event. And whether you love it or hate it, no one can deny the impact the contest has had on American popular culture-indeed, many reality television shows seem to have taken cues from the pageant. Founded in 1921, the Miss America Pageant has provided a fascinating glimpse into how American standards of femininity have been defined, projected, maintained, and challenged. At various times, it has been praised as a positive role model for young American women, protested as degrading to women by feminists, and shamed by scandals, such as the one caused by the Penthouse photos of Vanessa Williams in 1984. In this first interdisciplinary anthology to examine this uniquely American event, scholars defend, critique, and reflect on the pageant, grappling with themes like beauty, race, the body, identity, kitsch, and consumerism. "There She Is, Miss America" provides a fascinating examination of an enduring American icon.
Author : Amy Argetsinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982123400
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book There She Was written by Amy Argetsinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And of course, that soaring song. For all its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its giddy origins as a summer’s-end tourist draw in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza that drew tens of millions of viewers in its heyday and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. For two years, Washington Post reporter and editor Amy Argetsinger visited pageants and interviewed former winners and contestants to unveil the hidden world of this iconic institution. There She Was spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women’s liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas about feminism. For its superstars—Phyllis George, Vanessa Williams, Gretchen Carlson—and for those who never became household names, Miss America was a platform for women to exercise their ambitions and learn brutal lessons about the culture of fame. Spirited and revelatory, There She Was charts the evolution of the American woman, from the Miss America catapulted into advocacy after she was exposed as a survivor of domestic violence to the one who used her crown to launch a congressional campaign; from a 1930s winner who ran away on the night of her crowning to a present-day rock guitarist carving out her place in this world. Argetsinger dissects the scandals and financial turmoil that have repeatedly threatened to kill the pageant—and highlights the unexpected sisterhood of Miss Americas fighting to keep it alive.
