The most beautiful girl in the world : beauty pageants and national identity / Sarah Banet-Weiser.
Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966-
1999
HQ1220.U5 B36 1999 (Mapit)
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Title The most beautiful girl in the world : beauty pageants and national identity / Sarah Banet-Weiser.
Author Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966-
ISBN 0520217918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520217896 (alk. paper)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Language English
Description xiii, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HQ1220.U5 B36 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.6/2
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-263) and index.
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"A certain class of girl": respectability and the structure of the Miss America Pageant
Anatomy of a beauty pageant: the swimsuit competition
"If you were a color, what color would you be?": the interview and talent competitions in the Miss America pageant
Bodies of difference: race, nation, and the troubled reign of Vanessa Williams
The representational politics of whiteness and the national body: Bess Meyerson, Miss America 1945, and Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995
International spectacles, national borders: Miss Universe and the "family of nationals"
Conclusion.

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