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
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The item Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood, Margot Mifflin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Des Plaines Public Library.
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Introduction. American beauties
- Bathing beauties
- Dreamers
- Seekers
- Achievers
- Resisters
- Trailblazers
- Iconoclasts
- Believers
- Survivors
- Isbn
- 9781640092235
- 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
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- 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
- 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
- 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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