Beauty Queens on the Global Stage

Gender, Contests, and Power
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-91153-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Colleen Ballerino

Wilk, Richard

Stoeltje, Beverly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Beauty Queens on the Global Stage 1 / The Snake Charmer Queen: Ritual, Competition, and Signification in American Festival 2 / It's Not a Beauty Pageant!: Hybrid Ideology in Minnesota Community Queen Pageants 3 / Homage to La Cordobesa: Local Identity and Pageantry in Andalusia 4 / Beauty, Women, and Competition: Moscow Beauty 1989 5 / The India Bonita of Monimb6: The Politics of Ethnic Identity in the New Nicaragua 6 I Negotiating Style and Mediating Beauty: Transvestite (Gay/Ba11tut) Beauty Contests in the Southern Philippines 7 / Authenticity and Guatemala's Maya Queen 8 / Contestants in a Contested Domain: Staging Identities in the British Virgin Islands 9 I Carrying the Queen: Identity and Nationalism in a Liberian Queen Rally 10 / Miss Tibet, or Tibet Misrepresented?: The Trope of Woman-as-Nation in the Struggle for Tibet 11 / The Miss Heilala Beauty Pageant: Where Beauty Is More than Skin Deep 12 / The Politics of Beauty in Thailand 13 / Connections and Contradictions: From the Crooked Tree Cashew Queen to Miss World Belize.

Über Autor(innen)

Colleen Ballerino Cohen is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies and Director of Women's Studies at Vassar College. Her articles appear in Signs, Social Analysis, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and a special Gender Issue of the Annals of Tourism Research, and in edited collections. Since 1989 she has conducted ethnographic research on national culture and identity in the British Virgin Islands, and is presently completing a book based on this research. Beverly Stoeltje teaches feminism, nationalism, and ritual genres at Indiana University, where she is Associate Professor of Folklore, and is on the faculty of the African Studies Program, Women's Studies Program and the Research Center for Linguistics and Semiotic Studies. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Ghana 1989-90. She has published on Asante Queen mothers, women in the American West, American Rodeo and Festival; she was guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research, Feminist Revisions in Folklore Studies, and is currently editing a volume on the Vox Populi. Richard Wilk is a cultural anthropologist, presently an Associate Professor at Indiana University. He has done archaeological, ethnohistoric, ecological, and applied research in Belize for more than twenty years. He has written and edited books on household organization, and is currently completing a textbook in economic anthropology.