04386cam a2200865 4500 531854430 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781640092242 1640092242 B082X9TK7Y Amazon 24cf5fc4-02cd-42fa-bc8a-de1154a1b3ef OverDrive (Reserve ID) 675468 675468 675468 5190208 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mifflin, Margot, 1960- Looking for Miss America [Libby eBook] : A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood. Catapult, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 25MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. gifts for history buffs. history teacher gifts. history lovers gifts. history buff gifts. music biographies. women in history. historical books. autobiographies. women's history. sociology books. World History. Autobiography. history books. history gifts. anthropology. biographies. Pop Culture. philosophy. Biography. self help. Reference. Hollywood. Sociology. Business. feminist. feminism. Cooking. culture. fashion. History. health. Movies. Comedy. Essays. beauty. Aging. Drama. Music. Food. Film. HTML:<p><b>From an author praised for writing "delicious social history" (Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i>) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress</b></p> <p><i>Looking for Miss America</i> is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women's status during periods of social change—the post-suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever-changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations.</p> <p>Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant's history includes, crucially, those it excluded: the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be "of the white race," was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s.</p> <p>In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, <i>Looking for Miss America</i> examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.</p>. Women's Studies. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24cf5fc4-02cd-42fa-bc8a-de1154a1b3ef&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24cf5fc4-02cd-42fa-bc8a-de1154a1b3ef&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=24cf5fc4-02cd-42fa-bc8a-de1154a1b3ef&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)