Queens of academe : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life /

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 col...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tice, Karen Whitney, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Sujets:
Women college students > United States.
Beauty contestants > United States.
Beauty contests > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > Sociological aspects.
Étudiantes > États-Unis.
Candidates (Concours de beauté) > États-Unis.
Concours de beauté > États-Unis.
Universités > États-Unis > Aspect sociologique.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Beauty contestants
Beauty contests
Universities and colleges > Sociological aspects
Women college students
United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Beauty and the boar
  • Cleavage and campus life
  • Pride and pulchritude: campus pageant politics, 1920-1980
  • Making the grade in the new millennium: beauty, platforming, celebrity, and normativity
  • "We are here": pageants as racial "homeplaces" and ethnic combat zones
  • Class acts and class work: poise and the polishing of campus queens
  • Flesh and spirit: bibles, beauty, and bikinis
  • Afterward: class work/homework.

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