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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ochoa, Marcia, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transsexuals.
Femininity.
Beauty contestants.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Feminite > Venezuela.
Candidates (Concours de beaute) > Venezuela.
Transsexuels > Venezuela.
Femininity > Venezuela.
Beauty contestants > Venezuela.
Transsexuals > Venezuela.
Venezuela.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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