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ISBN: 0292739222 0292739214 0292767293 Year: 2014 Publisher: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press,
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In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating and insightful history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's "ideal," especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a special focus on Miss America's iconoclasts, including Bess Myerson (1945), the only Jewish Miss America; Yolande Betbeze (1951), who crusaded against the pageant's pinup image; and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987), a working-class woman from Michigan who wanted to merge her famous title with her work as an oncology nurse. Shindle's own account of her work as an AIDS activist--and finding ways to circumvent the "gown and crown" stereotypes of Miss America in order to talk honestly with high school students about safer sex--illuminates both the challenges and the opportunities that keep young women competing to become Miss America.
Beauty contests --- Beauty contestants --- Shindle, Kate. --- Beauty pageant contestants --- Beauty queens --- Contestants, Beauty --- Women --- Shindle, Katherine
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ISBN: 9780199933440 0199933448 0199842787 9780199842797 0199842795 9780199842780 9780199842803 0199842809 1280499729 9786613594952 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
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Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased in popularity in a cultural marketplace conjoining personal empowerment with beauty and style. Karen Tice examines the desires and racial and political agendas that propel students onto collegiate catwalks.
Women college students --- Beauty contestants --- Beauty contests --- Universities and colleges --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics --- Sociological aspects --- Education. --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools --- Education, Higher --- Beauty pageant contestants --- Beauty queens --- Contestants, Beauty --- Women --- Sociological aspects.
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