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| Author | : Colleen Ballerino Cohen |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Beauty contestants |
| ISBN | : 9780415911535 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Colleen Ballerion Cohen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113665819X |
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.
| Author | : Sabrina Billings |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2013-11-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1783090774 |
Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.
| Author | : Oluwakemi M. Balogun |
| Publisher | : Globalization in Everyday Life |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-12-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781503608856 |
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.
| Author | : Libba Bray |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2011-05-24 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545388716 |
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 | : Noliwe M. Rooks |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780813523125 |
We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. She discusses the ways in which African American women have located themselves in their own families, communities, and national culture through beauty advertisements, treatments, and styles. Bringing the story into today's beauty shop, listening to other women talk about braids, Afros, straighteners, and what they mean today to grandmothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and boyfriends, she also talks about her own family and has fun along the way. Hair Raising is that rare sort of book that manages both to entertain and to illuminate its subject.
| Author | : Marcia Ochoa |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2014-05-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822376997 |
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.
| Author | : Niko Besnier |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2011-03-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804777640 |
Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"—and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them—have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take.
| Author | : Laura Grindstaff |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 721 |
| Release | : 2010-09-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134026153 |
Pt. 1. Sociological programs of cultural analysis -- pt. 2. Theories and methodologies in cultural analysis -- pt. 3. Aesthetics, ethics, and cultural legitimacy -- pt. 4. Individuals and groups, identities and performances -- pt. 5. Culture and stratification -- pt. 6. Making/using culture -- pt. 7. Cultures of work and professions -- pt. 8. Political cultures -- pt. 9. Global cultures, global processes -- pt. 10. Cultural processes and change.
