Beauty Queens on the Global Stage : Gender, Contests, and Power (Paperback)

Introduction: Beauty Queens on the Global Stage 1 / The Snake Charmer Queen: Ritual, Competition, and Signification in American Festival 2 / It's Not a Beauty Pageant!: Hybrid Ideology in Minnesota Community Queen Pageants 3 / Homage to La Cordobesa: Local Identity and Pageantry in Andalusia 4 / Beauty, Women, and Competition: Moscow Beauty 1989 5 / The India Bonita of Monimb6: The Politics of Ethnic Identity in the New Nicaragua 6 I Negotiating Style and Mediating Beauty: Transvestite (Gay/Ba11tut) Beauty Contests in the Southern Philippines 7 / Authenticity and Guatemala's Maya Queen 8 / Contestants in a Contested Domain: Staging Identities in the British Virgin Islands 9 I Carrying the Queen: Identity and Nationalism in a Liberian Queen Rally 10 / Miss Tibet, or Tibet Misrepresented?: The Trope of Woman-as-Nation in the Struggle for Tibet 11 / The Miss Heilala Beauty Pageant: Where Beauty Is More than Skin Deep 12 / The Politics of Beauty in Thailand 13 / Connections and Contradictions: From the Crooked Tree Cashew Queen to Miss World Belize.