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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ochoa, Marcia, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Perverse modernities.
Subjects:
Transsexuals > Venezuela.
Beauty contestants > Venezuela.
Femininity > Venezuela.
Transsexuels > Venezuela.
Candidates (Concours de beauté) > Venezuela.
Féminité > Venezuela.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Beauty contestants
Femininity
Transsexuals
Venezuela
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