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Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
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Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies Award
From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress
Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start...
From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress
Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start...