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Beauty contests --- Empresses --- Marriage --- Selection and appointment

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"Drag Queens and Beauty Queens is the portrait of the gay community in Atlantic City seen through the lens of two beauty pageants, the iconic Miss America Pageant and its drag counterpart, the Miss'd America Pageant. Both originated and evolved in this oldest of America's resort towns. Beauty pageants are anything but trivial. As public spectacle, pageantry allows for the expression of oppositional values in a context that appears inconsequential, but they are actually highly charged performances of gender, deeply rooted in the social, political, and economic ideals contested within the culture of the time. Both the Miss America pageant and the Miss'd America pageant lie at the heart of gay life in Atlantic City, which centered around the once vibrant and now abandoned New York Avenue. The book contends that the Miss America pageant is admired by the gay community there in general and the gay male and drag community in particular because of its long-standing social and economic interactions with the town, and is understood by gays as essentially a camp performance. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens illustrates the immense influence that the Miss America Pageant had on the construction of gay identity in Atlantic City, and how gay Atlantic City has in turn "queered" the Miss America Pageant"--

Beauty contests --- Gay community --- Drag shows --- Drag balls --- Drag queens --- Drag kings --- Miss America Pageant. --- Miss'd America Pageant.

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Fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that femininity was used to shape ideas about Caribbean modernity, citizenship, and political and economic freedom. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, 'race' and racism studies and studies of the body.

Ethnic attitudes --- Race awareness --- Beauty contests --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Cultural awareness --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Beauty pageants --- Pageants, Beauty --- Contests --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Anglophone Caribbean. --- Barbados. --- British Caribbean. --- Caribbean beauty contests. --- Carnival Queen. --- Claudia Jones. --- Jamaican racial democracy. --- London. --- Miss Ebony. --- Miss Jamaica. --- Miss Trinidad. --- TenTypes Model. --- West Indian Gazette. --- black beauty culture. --- creme de la creme. --- cultural revolution. --- radical feminism.

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Schoonheidsparades - als wedstrijd en als performence - zijn overal ter wereld populaire culturele evenementen. Deze collectie brengt een aantal studies over schoonheidsparades in veertien verschillende culturen samen. De hoofdstukken handelen over schoonheidskoninginnen uit Guatemala, Nicaragua, het landelijke Minnesota en internationale wedstrijden in Thailand, Belize, de Britse Maagdeneilanden, Tonga en Tibet. De essays bediscussiëren de manier waarop genderideologieën gerepresenteerd en versterkt worden in de schoonheidsparades en belichten de culturele opvattingen over schoonheid en vrouwelijkheid die in de keuze van de koninginnen naar voor komen.

Beauty contests --- Concours de beauté --- Cross-cultural studies --- Concours de beauté --- Sociology of culture --- Developmental psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Multiculturalism --- International --- Power --- Theory --- Cross-dressing --- Appearance --- Images of women --- Féminité --- Book --- Competition --- Culture

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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. 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.