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[News Clip: Beauty queen]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the queen of Texas' Miss Universe pageant getting fitted for a costume for the national Miss Universe Pageant
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[News Clip: Beauty queen]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the queen of Texas' Miss Universe pageant getting fitted for a costume for the national Miss Universe Pageant
Miss Universe Contest
No full textPhotograph of a Miss Universe pageant contestant walking down a runway
Miss Universe Contest
No full textPhotograph of a beauty pageant contestant walking down a runway at the Miss Universe Pageant
Miss Universe Contest
No full textPhotograph of a beauty pageant contestant walking down a runway at the Miss Universe pageant
Artie Tyler Miss Universe collection
No full textThis collection consists of material related to Artie Tyler's participation in the 1929 Miss Universe Pageant
University of California Press eScholarship editions in process
No full textSarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study.Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability
Miss Universe Contest #1
No full textPhotograph of an unknown contestant from the Miss Universe pageant. She is wearing a swimsuit as she comes out of a pool
Miss Universe Contest #2
No full textPhotograph of an unknown contestant from the Miss Universe pageant. She is wearing a swimsuit and she is standing by a diving board next to a pool
[Photograph 2012.201.B0414B.0290]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jackie Sue Maloney displays a picture of the contestants in the Miss Universe pageant.
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