A Beautiful Pageant

Author : D. Krasner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137066251

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A Beautiful Pageant by D. Krasner Pdf

The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American Arts. Defined as the years between 1910 and 1927, it was the time when Harlem came alive with theater, drama, sports, dance and politics. Looking at events as diverse as the prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jim 'White Hope' Jeffries, the choreography of Aida Walker and Ethel Waters, the writing of Zora Neale Hurston and the musicals of the period, Krasner paints a vibrant portrait of those years. This was the time when the residents of northern Manhattan were leading their downtown counterparts at the vanguard of artistic ferment while at the same time playing a pivotal role in the evolution of Black nationalism. This is a thrilling piece of work by an author who has been working towards this major opus for years now. It will become a classic that will stay on the American history and theater shelves for years to come.

Author : Blain Roberts
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469614205

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Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women by Blain Roberts Pdf

Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

Author : Libba Bray
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545388719

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Beauty Queens by Libba Bray Pdf

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 : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520922600

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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World by Sarah Banet-Weiser Pdf

Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.

Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807083642

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Here She Is by Hilary Levey Friedman Pdf

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.

Author : Ann-Marie Bivans
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0806516437

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101 Secrets to Winning Beauty Pageants by Ann-Marie Bivans Pdf

Presents advice on the best attitude, clothes and accessories, and performance techniques for beauty pageant competition

Author : Susan Anderson
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Beauty contestants
ISBN : 1576875148

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High Glitz by Susan Anderson Pdf

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.

Author : Patrizia Gentile
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774864152

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Queen of the Maple Leaf by Patrizia Gentile Pdf

As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty emerged as a business. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers the codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that beauty pageants exemplified, whether they took place on local or national stages. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women, but immigrant women need not apply. Patrizia Gentile demonstrates how beauty contests connected female bodies to white, wholesome, respectable, middle-class femininity, locating their longevity squarely within their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies.

Author : Colleen Ballerion Cohen,Richard Wilk,Beverly Stoeltje
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136658198

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Beauty Queens on the Global Stage by Colleen Ballerion Cohen,Richard Wilk,Beverly Stoeltje Pdf

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 : Margot Mifflin
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640094901

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Looking for Miss America by Margot Mifflin Pdf

Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies Award 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, now in its one hundredth year, 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.

Author : Judy Alter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Beauty contests
ISBN : 0531202534

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Beauty Pageants by Judy Alter Pdf

Examines beauty pageants past and present, their contestants, and their possible future.

Author : Oluwakemi M. Balogun
Publisher : Globalization in Everyday Life
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503608859

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Beauty Diplomacy by Oluwakemi M. Balogun Pdf

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 : Todd-Michael St. Pierre
Publisher : Word Blossoms Pub
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0967517001

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The Louisiana State Bird Beauty Pageant by Todd-Michael St. Pierre Pdf

Author : Linda Bailey
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525309861

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Stanley's Beauty Contest by Linda Bailey Pdf

Stanley’s people are so preoccupied with primping him for the dog show in the park that they forgot his breakfast. This makes Stanley very grumpy. At the park, Stanley meets up with his old friends Nutsy, Alice and Gassy Jack. Together the friends look longingly at the grand prize: the biggest, most scrumptious-smelling dog cookie ever. Once Stanley gets a whiff of its bubbling cheese, sizzling bacon and apple pie aromas, he’s determined to win. So what if he’s not the fastest, most talented or most beautiful dog in the show? We know that Stanley’s rumbling tummy always leads him into adventure --- or a big pile of trouble --- and this time is no exception. Join Stanley and his friends in the best dogpile ever as they show us humans that dogs know best, and that what really counts is having fun!

Author : Samuel A. Hay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521465850

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African American Theatre by Samuel A. Hay Pdf

This book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present.