Karen W Tice

Queens of Academe

Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Karen Tice examines the desires and racial and political agendas that propel students onto collegiate catwalks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780199842803
• ISBN-10: 0199842809
• Artikelnr.: 40543738

Autorenporträt

Karen Tice is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender & Women's Studies and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and the Professionalization of Social Work (Illinois, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Chapter 1. Beauty and the Boar
* Chapter 2. Cleavage and Campus Life
* Chapter 3. Pride and Pulchritude: Campus Pageant Politics, 1920-1980
* Chapter 4. Making the Grade in the New Millennium: Beauty,
Platforming, Celebrity, and Normativity
* Chapter 5. "We Are Here: " Pageants as Racial "Homeplaces " and
Ethnic Combat Zones
* Chapter 6. Class Acts and Class Work: Poise and the Polishing of
Campus Queens
* Chapter 7. Flesh and Spirit: Bibles, Beauty, and Bikinis
* Chapter 8. Afterward: Class Work/Homework
* Endnotes
* Bibliography