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Routledge
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Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times. |
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By Linda Bailey
Kids Can Press
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Stanley's people are so preoccupied with primping him for the dog show in the park that they forgot his breakfast. This makes Stanley very grumpy. At the park, Stanley meets up with his old friends Nutsy, Alice and Gassy Jack. Together the friends look longingly at the grand prize: the biggest, most scrumptious-smelling dog cookie ever. Once Stanley gets a whiff of its bubbling cheese, sizzling bacon and apple pie aromas, he's determined to win. So what if he's not the fastest, most talented or most beautiful dog in the show? We know that Stanley's rumbling tummy always leads him into adventure -- or a big pile of trouble -- and this time is no exception. Join Stanley and his friends in the best dogpile ever as they show us humans that dogs know best, and that what really counts is having fun! |
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By Maxine Leeds Craig
Oxford University Press, USA
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Black is Beautiful! The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty standards seemed to arise overnight, they actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class, politics, and personal appearance in their lives. Craig takes the reader from beauty parlors in the 1940s to late night political meetings in the 1960s to demonstrate the powerful influence of social movements on the experience of daily life. With sources ranging from oral histories of Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activists and men and women who stood on the sidelines to black popular magazines and the black movement press, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? will fascinate those interested in beauty culture, gender, class, and the dynamics of race and social movements. |
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Greenhaven Press
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By Elissa Stein
Chronicle Books
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Each year over 700,000 beauty pageants are held in cities and towns the world over. Here is a celebration of that glitz and that glory. From Miss Universe to Miss Potato Blossom, this colorful book showcases pageants large and small, focusing on the heyday of beauty contests from the 1930s to the 1970s. Chapters on fashion, talent, bathing-suit competitions, and congeniality are packed with insider information on exactly what it takes to win the crown, secrets to looking perennially polished and poised, and tidbits on the beauty queen wave, talent dos and don’ts, and pageant etiquette. With over 100 vintage photos, Beauty Queen is a sweetly nostalgic ode to pageantry perfection. |
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By Keith Lovegrove
Diane Pub Co
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This volume celebrates the culture of the beauty contest, from the well-known spectacles of Miss World & Mr. & Miss Universe to the flamboyance of Alternative Miss World; from sub-culture contests, such as Miss Nude UK, to the bizarre -- for example, the crowning of the frankfurter-clad Sausage Queen to promote National Hot Dog Week in the U.S. In America alone, 35,000 beauty pageants are held throughout the year, but the beauty contest is a truly international phenomenon. This book features contests from around the world, ranging from Miss Tiffany's Universe competition in Thailand, for transvestites & transsexuals, to the Santa Monica Prison in-house pageant in Peru; from Miss Arizona Teen USA to Mr. Gay UK. Color photos. |
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By Frank G. Harris
New York Saber Books #SA-61 1964.
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By P. G. Wodehouse
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Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Released: 2005-07-28
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on August 16, 1999. The length of the article is 665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: CONCURSOS DE BELLEZA.(TT: Beauty contest.)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 16, 1999
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 72
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By Greville Janner
Random House Business Books
Hardcover (154 pages)
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Competitive pitches - known in the trade as "beauty contests" are on the increase everywhere. Businesses that once could sit back and wait for business to flow in must now demonstrate that their products are better than their competitors and both public and private sectors are increasingly putting contracts out to open tender. This book aims to show, step-by-step, how to win such contests. It covers choosing and rehearsing the team, researching the opposition and preparation of presentation and documentation. |
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