Queens of academe : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life / Karen W. Tice.
2012
LC1757 .T53 2012eb
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Title
Queens of academe : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life / Karen W. Tice.
Author
ISBN
9780199842797 (electronic bk.)
0199842795 (electronic bk.)
9780199933440 (ebook)
0199933448 (ebook)
9780199842780
0199842787
9780199842803
0199842809
0199842795 (electronic bk.)
9780199933440 (ebook)
0199933448 (ebook)
9780199842780
0199842787
9780199842803
0199842809
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
LC1757 .T53 2012eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)794003762
Summary
Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased in popularity in a cultural marketplace conjoining personal empowerment with beauty and style. Tice examines the desires and racial and political agendas that propel students onto collegiate catwalks.
Note
Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased in popularity in a cultural marketplace conjoining personal empowerment with beauty and style. Tice examines the desires and racial and political agendas that propel students onto collegiate catwalks.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Beauty and the boar
Cleavage and campus life
Pride and pulchritude: campus pageant politics, 1920-1980
Making the grade in the new millennium: beauty, platforming, celebrity, and normativity
"We are here": pageants as racial "homeplaces" and ethnic combat zones
Class acts and class work: poise and the polishing of campus queens
Flesh and spirit: bibles, beauty, and bikinis
Afterward: class work/homework.
Cleavage and campus life
Pride and pulchritude: campus pageant politics, 1920-1980
Making the grade in the new millennium: beauty, platforming, celebrity, and normativity
"We are here": pageants as racial "homeplaces" and ethnic combat zones
Class acts and class work: poise and the polishing of campus queens
Flesh and spirit: bibles, beauty, and bikinis
Afterward: class work/homework.
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Print version: Tice, Karen Whitney, 1955- Queens of academe. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012
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