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Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
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Miss America Pageant -- History.
Beauty contests -- United States -- History.
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Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
Miss America Pageant -- History.
Beauty contests -- United States -- History.
MARC Display
Looking
for
Miss
America
: a
pageant
's
100-year
quest
to
define
womanhood
/ Margot Mifflin.
by
Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
Counterpoint, 2020.
Call #:
791.66 M633L
Subjects
Miss
America
Pageant
-- History.
Beauty contests -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9781640092235 (hc.)
Edition:
1st hardcover ed.
Description:
310 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable
Miss
America
contestants, protests, and scandals -- and how the
pageant
, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress.
Looking
for
Miss
America
is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the
pageant
has indexed women’s status during periods of social change -- the post-suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever-changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival
Miss
USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the
pageant
for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the
pageant
,
Looking
for
Miss
America
examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual."--From publisher.
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