There She Is, Miss America: The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America’s Most Famous Pageant by Elwood Watson (Editor), Darcy Martin (Editor)
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Overview: Essays that critique and celebrate one of the best known American icons of the twentieth century.
“This book is a significant exploration of the dilemma of American women in our modern consumer culture between glamour as objectification and standardization and, conversely, as a means of self-expression. These essays edited by Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin encompass issues of gender, race, and nationality as manifested in the history of the Miss America pageant in an exciting manner to show the power of popular culture in the national consciousness.
Genre: Social Sciences > Gender Studies
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