id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nwzs4fk63jdozihk3y7vqdntsy Bakirathi Mani The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identity 2005 3 .pdf application/pdf 1300 61 43 Sarah Banet-Weiser argues that the beauty pageant is a central site for ideologies the annual Miss America pageant, Banet-Weiser's monograph is an important the Miss America pageant expands upon feminist scholarship in the field of popular culture, Banet-Weiser notes that beauty pageants have often been discussed in contestants and organizers, Banet-Weiser demonstrates how the Miss America Banet-Weiser analyses three critical moments in the history of the Miss America pageant: the nomination of Vanessa Williams as the first black Miss America in 135) that inform the Miss America pageant, incorporation and eventual selection as winners of the Miss America pageant provides one way of rethinking the equation between Miss America and national meaning of the pageant, Miss America proves to be an ambivalent site on which The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identity The most beautiful girl in the world: beauty pageants and national identity ./cache/work_nwzs4fk63jdozihk3y7vqdntsy.pdf ./txt/work_nwzs4fk63jdozihk3y7vqdntsy.txt