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The Resource Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood, Margot Mifflin

Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood, Margot Mifflin

Label
Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood
Title
Looking for Miss America
Title remainder
a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood
Statement of responsibility
Margot Mifflin
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"[A] fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers and dissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, ... who judged; and the masterminds behind it ... Breaks down the blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety and cultural mythology that has fueled the pageant, the racial biases it has perpetuated, and the social mobility it has enabled"--
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Provided by publisher
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LBSOR/DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1960-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Mifflin, Margot
Dewey number
791.6/6
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
no index present
LC call number
HQ1220.U5
LC item number
M44 2020
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Miss America Pageant
  • Beauty contests
Target audience
adult
Label
Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood, Margot Mifflin
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction. American beauties -- Bathing beauties -- Dreamers -- Seekers -- Achievers -- Resisters -- Trailblazers -- Iconoclasts -- Believers -- Survivors
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Extent
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781640092235
Lccn
2019053730
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)on1139148257
  • (OCoLC)1139148257
  • 2482748
  • 2869925
  • 3138309
Label
Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood, Margot Mifflin
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction. American beauties -- Bathing beauties -- Dreamers -- Seekers -- Achievers -- Resisters -- Trailblazers -- Iconoclasts -- Believers -- Survivors
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Extent
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781640092235
Lccn
2019053730
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)on1139148257
  • (OCoLC)1139148257
  • 2482748
  • 2869925
  • 3138309

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