Beauty queens on the global stage : gender, contests, and power /
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New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Beauty queens on the global stage / Colleen Ballerino Cohen and Richard Wilk, with Beverly Stoeltje
- The snake charmer queen : ritual, competition, and signification in American festival / Beverly Stoeltje
- "It's not a beauty pageant!" : hybrid ideology in Minnesota community queen pageants / Robert H. Lavenda
- Homage to "la Cordobesa" : local identity and pageantry in Andalusia / Richard Sanders and Sarah Pink
- Beauty, women, and competition : "Moscow beauty 1989" / Lena Moskalenko
- The India Bonita of Monimbó : the politics of ethnic identity in the New Nicaragua / Katherine Borland
- Negotiating style and mediating beauty : transvestite (gay/bantut) beauty contests in the southern Philippines / Mark Johnson
- Authenticity and Guatemala's Maya Queen / Carlota McAllister
- Contestants in a contested domain : staging identities in the British Virgin Islands / Colleen Ballerino Cohen
- Carrying the queen : identity and nationalism in a Liberian Queen Rally / Mary H. Moran
- Miss Tibet, or Tibet misrepresented? : the trope of woman-as-nation in the struggle for Tibet / Carole McGranahan
- The Miss Heilala Beauty Pageant : where beauty is more than skin deep / Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk
- The politics of beauty in Thailand / Penny Van Esterik
- Connections and contradictions : from the Crooked Tree Cashew Queen to Miss World Belize / Richard Wilk.