| Description |
vii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Beauty queens on the global stage / Colleen Ballerino Cohen and Richard Wilk, with Beverly Stoeltje -- The snake charmer queen : ritual, competition, and signification in American festival / Beverly Stoeltje -- "It's not a beauty pageant!" : hybrid ideology in Minnesota community queen pageants / Robert H. Lavenda -- Homage to "la Cordobesa" : local identity and pageantry in Andalusia / Richard Sanders and Sarah Pink -- Beauty, women, and competition : "Moscow beauty 1989" / Lena Moskalenko -- The India Bonita of Monimbo : the politics of ethnic identity in the New Nicaragua / Katherine Borland -- Negotiating style and mediating beauty : transvestite (gay/bantut) beauty contests in the southern Philippines / Mark Johnson -- Authenticity and Guatemala's Maya Queen / Carlota McAllister -- Contestants in a contested domain : staging identities in the British Virgin Islands / Colleen Ballerino Cohen -- Carrying the queen : identity and nationalism in a Liberian Queen Rally / Mary H. Moran -- Miss Tibet, or Tibet misrepresented? : the trope of woman-as-nation in the struggle for Tibet / Carole McGranahan -- The Miss Heilala Beauty Pageant : where beauty is more than skin deep / Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk -- The politics of beauty in Thailand / Penny Van Esterik -- Connections and contradictions : from the Crooked Tree Cashew Queen to Miss World Belize / Richard Wilk. |
| Subject |
Beauty contests -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, Colleen Ballerino.
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Wilk, Richard.
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Stoeltje, Beverly.
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| ISBN |
0415911532 (pbk.) |
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0415911524 (hardback) |
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