Beauty Queens : A Playful History

Savage, Candace

Vancouver , 1998

By Greystone Books
$11.00 USD
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Details

Card Covers with inside flaps, 132 pages, B&W photographs.
Condition

Covers rubbed, corners bumped, edgeworn front fore edge, back cover and several pages creased at fore edge corner.
Notes

Beauty Queens: A Playful History explores the evolution of beauty pageants from their early beginnings to their peak in popular culture. Savage looks at how contests developed from minor local events into globally watched spectacles like Miss Universe, tracing when and why they started, how they became cultural institutions, and what they reveal about society’s ideas of beauty and femininity. The book combines historical detail with entertaining commentary on the pageant phenomenon
ISBN

155054618X
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