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Queen for a day : transformistas, beauty queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela /

Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ochoa, Marcia, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Perverse modernities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing ... the queen
  • Belleza Venezolana: media, race, modernity, and nation in the twentieth-century Venezuelan beauty contest
  • La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas: fashion, beauty, and consumption on the (trans)national
  • La reina de la noche: performance, sexual subjectivity, and the form of the beauty
  • Pageant in Venezuela
  • Pasarelas y perolones: transformista mediations on avenida libertador in Caracas
  • Sacar el cuerpo : transformista and Miss Embodiment
  • Spectacular femininities
  • Epilogue: democracy and melodrama: frivolity, fracaso, and political violence in Venezuela.