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Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

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Universities are unlikely venues for grading bodies, beauty, poise, and style. Nonetheless, thousands of college women have sought not only college diplomas but campus beauty titles and tiaras throughout the twentieth century, and the cultural power of beauty pageants continues into the twenty-first. In Queens of Academe, Karen W. Tice asks how, and why, does higher education remain in the beauty and body business and with what effects on student bodies and identities. Drawing on archival research and interviews as well as hundreds of hours observing college pageants on predominantly black and white campuses, Tice argues the pageants help to illuminate the shifting iterations of class, race, religion, culture, sexuality, and gender braided into campus rituals and student life. Moving beyond a binary of objectification versus empowerment, Tice offers a nuanced analysis of the making of idealized collegiate masculinities and femininities, and the stylization of higher education itself.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Beauty and the Boar Chapter 2. Cleavage and Campus Life Chapter 3. Pride and Pulchritude: Campus Pageant Politics, 1920-1980 Chapter 4. Making the Grade in the New Millennium: Beauty, Platforming, Celebrity, and Normativity Chapter 5. "We Are Here:" Pageants as Racial "Homeplaces" and Ethnic Combat Zones Chapter 6. Class Acts and Class Work: Poise and the Polishing of Campus Queens Chapter 7. Flesh and Spirit: Bibles, Beauty, and Bikinis Chapter 8. Afterward: Class Work/Homework Endnotes Bibliography

About the Author :
Karen W. Tice is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Review :
"This is the first book to provide a complete history of campus beauty contests and their deep embedding in American life, as we strive to provide ways in which young women can fulfill themselves. Whether we condemn judging women by beauty standards or understand that this imperative goes back to the ancient Greeks, we know that beauty and its manifestations drive our culture as much as athletic contests and games." --Lois Banner, University of Southern California "Queens of Academe unearths the fascinating past and explores the complicated present of campus beauty pageants. Through nuanced analysis of the dynamics of class and race, Tice skillfully critiques celebrations of consumption and competition as forms of women's empowerment and provides a timely and fascinating perspective on entrepreneurial conservative Christianity. Karen Tice shows us that campus pageants are the ideal place to view the neoliberal transformation of the university." --Maxine Craig, University of California - Davis "This book is ethnography at its best. Karen Tice takes her readers into the lively world of campus beauty pageants from multiple vantage points. The book pulls back the curtain on the hidden curriculum of class, race, gender, and sexuality in college life and learning; the marketing of higher education; and how to use the study of campus culture as a teachable moment. It belongs on every college reading list." --Wendy Luttrell, Graduate Center, City University of New York "This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the pageantry phenomenon and issues of feminism and gender norms." --Contemporary Sociology "Tice has made a significant contribution to understanding several normative threads that when woven together constitute much of our unique American culture." --International Social Science Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199842803
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199842809
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life
  • Width: 229 mm


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