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Queens of academe : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life / Karen W. Tice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tice, Karen Whitney, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women college students--United States.
- Women college students.
- Universities and colleges.
- Beauty contestants.
- United States.
- Beauty contestants--United States.
- Beauty contests--United States.
- Beauty contests.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Beauty and the boar
- Cleavage and campus life
- Pride and pulchritude: campus pageant politics, 1920-1980
- Making the grade in the new millennium: beauty, platforming, celebrity, and normativity
- "We are here": pageants as racial "homeplaces" and ethnic combat zones
- Class acts and class work: poise and the polishing of campus queens
- Flesh and spirit: bibles, beauty, and bikinis
- Afterward: class work/homework.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199842780
- 0199842787
- 9780199842803
- 0199842809
- OCLC:
- 745428787
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