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Here She Is

Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080708364X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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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.

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Author : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520217918
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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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 1999-09-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is work in the best tradition of cultural analysis, refashioning a seemingly banal cultural object into a newly complicated and eye-opening thing.

Looking for Miss America

Author : Margot Mifflin
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092242
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Miss America written by Margot Mifflin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.

There She Was

Author : Amy Argetsinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982123400
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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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.

American Historical Pageantry

Author : David Glassberg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807842867
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book American Historical Pageantry written by David Glassberg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the

Positive Pageantry

Author : Jackie Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Positive Pageantry written by Jackie Watson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of pageants, what pops in your mind? Most people tend to think negatively of pageantry as a whole, and the pageant industry has certainly done it's share in perpetrating the negative stereotypes. But there's so much more to pageants than shiny crowns, ballgowns, curled hair and fake lashes. Step inside a whole new world by immersing yourself in stories that will restore your faith in pageantry and make you realize that "pageant" is not a dirty word. This feel-good collection of stories, insight and wisdom detailing all the good that comes from pageants will shatter perceptions and open your eyes to what all pageant girls already know: pageantry can change lives for good! And when something's good, you want to share it. To those who are not in the pageant world, they may not see any redeeming qualities in pageantry. Positive Pageantry shines a light on the self-improvement, goal achievement, community impact and immense life skills that come from pageantry... and so much more. Get the whole scoop here! Through real life stories from real beauty queens, to thought-provoking insight from one of America's most respected pageant directors, you will journey through the triumph and impacts that pageantry is championing in the lives of young women worldwide.

The American Pageant

Author : Thomas Andrew Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Pageant written by Thomas Andrew Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first Indian people to the present day.

“There She Is, Miss America”

Author : E. Watson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981825
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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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.

Muscogee Daughter

Author : Susan Supernaw
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220366
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Muscogee Daughter written by Susan Supernaw and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn't just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and a physical disability, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar, won a scholarship to college, and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning, Supernaw's story is revealing, humorous, and deeply moving. Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a citizen of the world.

Producing Beauty Pageants

Author : Anna Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962197239
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Producing Beauty Pageants written by Anna Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Stanley, a pageant director (since 1983) and the author of The Crowning Touch: Preparing for Beauty Pageant Competition (1989), also wrote the first edition of Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide (1989). In the '90s, this first edition was used in the production of The Secret World of... series for The Learning Channel. Twenty-five years later, Anna has written Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide, 2nd Edition. Nine years in the making, not only does it feature entirely NEW pageant trade information, Producing Beauty Pageants has also been expanded into a series. The Producing Beauty Pageants series includes: A Director's Guide, 2nd Ed. Creating a Synergized National Pageant System Brokering a Pageant through Barter Contestant Handbook Sponsorship Fee Optionals Open Call Directing a Fundraiser Pageant A Guide to Pageant Terminology (FREE e-book) If you want the convenience of interactive hyperlinks to the references in this book, you will need to purchase the e-book version of the same title.

Beauty Diplomacy

Author : Oluwakemi M. Balogun
Publisher : Globalization in Everyday Life
ISBN 13 : 9781503610972
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Beauty Diplomacy written by Oluwakemi M. Balogun and published by Globalization in Everyday Life. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground.

The American Pageant

Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781305268456
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The American Pageant written by David M. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of American Pageant, the leading program for AP U.S. history, now reflects the redesigned AP Course and Exam that begins with the 2014-2015 school year. The 16th edition helps prepare students for success on the AP Exam by 1) helping them practice historical thinking skills, pulling together concepts with events, and 2) giving them practice answering questions modeled after those they'll find on the exam. The new edition adds a two-page opener/preview to every chapter, guiding students through the main points of the chapter and using questions and elements tied to the AP Curriculum Framework to help them internalize the chapter more conceptually. Also new are additional End-of-Part multiple-choice and short answer questions reflecting the changes to the exam. Practice DBQs and other free response essay questions will still be found at the back of the book.

Queen for a Day

Author : Marcia Ochoa
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376997
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Queen for a Day written by Marcia Ochoa and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela. Beauty pageants play an outsized role in Venezuela. The country has won more international beauty contests than any other. The femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.

Radical Self-Love

Author : Gala Darling
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401951430
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Radical Self-Love written by Gala Darling and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamed of a life full of laughter, love, and sequins … but felt totally clueless about how to make it happen? You’re not alone. Best-selling author and speaker Gala Darling spent years in soul-sucking jobs, battling depression, an eating disorder, and a preference for chaos and disaster—simply because she didn’t know how to create the life she dreamed about. In Radical Self-Love, you’ll discover exactly what makes you so magnificent, and you’ll gain a litany of tools and techniques to help you manifest a life bursting with magic, miracles, bliss, and adventure! Featuring fun homework exercises and cool illustrations, this book will take you from learning to fall madly in love with yourself, to loving others, to making your world a more magical place through style, self-expression, and manifestation. When you love yourself, life is limitless. You can do anything you want. It’s time to throw off the shackles of expectation and judgment, and start living from your heart. It’s time to astound yourself with how beautiful your life can be. It’s time to treat every single day like a celebration! "I believe that radical self-love can go hand in hand with a ruby-red lip. . . . that learning how to love yourself can be a party: streamers, disco balls, helium balloons, and all!" xo, Gala "Radical Self-Love should be on every woman’s bookshelf." — Gabrielle Bernstein

High Glitz

Author : Susan Anderson
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576875148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (751 download)

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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.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Author : Barbara Robinson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573617454
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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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.

Beauty Queens on the Global Stage

Author : Colleen Ballerion Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113665819X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Beauty Queens on the Global Stage written by Colleen Ballerion Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.