Rowe Imagining Caribbean womanhood

Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929–70
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1127-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Gender in History

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowe, Rochelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context
1. The early ‘Miss Jamaica’ competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929–1950
2. Cleaning up carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad ‘Carnival Queen’ beauty competition, 1946–1959
3. Parading the ‘crème de la crème’: constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958–1966
4. Fashioning ‘Ebony Cinderellas’ and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955–1964
5. ‘Colonisation in reverse’: Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the ‘Carnival Queen’ contest in London, 1959–1964
Afterword: a Grenadian ‘Miss World’, 1970
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rowe Rochelle:
Rochelle Rowe teaches at the University of ExeterRochelle Rowe teaches at the University of Exeter