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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity Book

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity, 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 accurat, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity has a rating of 3.5 stars
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity, 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 accurat, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
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  • The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity
  • Written by author Sarah Banet-Weiser
  • Published by University of California Press, September 1999
  • 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 accurat
  • 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 accurat
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Introduction1
1"A Certain Class of Girl": Respectability and the Structure of the Miss America Pageant31
2Anatomy of a Beauty Pageant: The Swimsuit Competition58
3"If You Were a Color, What Color Would You Be?": The Interview and Talent Competitions in the Miss America Pageant87
4Bodies of Difference: Race, Nation, and the Troubled Reign of Vanessa Williams123
5The Representational Politics of Whiteness and the National Body: Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945, and Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995153
6International Spectacles, National Borders: Miss Universe and the "Family of Nations"181
Conclusion205
Notes211
Bibliography241
Index265


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