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Williams, Caroline. "It's Not a Beauty Pageant!: An Examination of Leadership Development through Alaska Native Pageants." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293488.

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This dissertation explores the adaptation of traditionally objectified women's spaces, into an arena for leadership development, research which incorporates the development of culturally relevant mechanisms of leadership training within Indigenous societies. Cultural pageants offer a place for young women to become spokespersons on social justice issues, without the sexual objectification of entering beauty pageants. Such pageants also provide a glimpse of how cultural groups wish their national identity to be portrayed to the general public. Fifty years in the making, today's Native Nations cultural pageants have been decolonized to present images of young leaders, confident in their heritage, introducing themselves in their Native language, and committed to cultural continuity and sustainable Nations. This research examines a state-wide Alaska Native pageant, Miss World Eskimo Indian Olympics, from three perspectives: 1) The young women who develop culturally based leadership skills; 2) The community, who gains language and cultural, revitalization and maintenance role models; 3) And the general public, who gains a much needed positive representation of a contemporary Indigenous women. This study draws from interdisciplinary theories and research methodologies (including observation, in-depth interviews, questionnaires, surveys, and archival research) and follows the young women through to the contest at the national level, Miss Indian World, run annually in Albuquerque, through Gathering of Nations. The underlying hypothesis is that women use cultural pageants as a stepping stone to advance their cultural leadership. In doing so, they promote factors of community well-being affecting Indigenous communities, such as suicide prevention, substance abuse, and language and cultural revitalization.
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Heltsley, Martha. "Beauty Pageant Mothers: Demographics, Motivations, and Family Structure." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/311.

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An exploratory analysis of national beauty pageants for children was conducted through the administration of a questionnaire and through observation. The population surveyed was mothers with daughters sixteen years old or under. Questionnaires were distributed at six national pageants in five states with a total of 134 respondents. The questionnaire probed a variety of areas concerning the child's involvement, expenses incurred, beauty enhancements worn, and general demographic information concerning the contestant's family. Attitudinal statements concerning the role of women in society and the importance of beauty in society were investigated. A comparison was made between the attitudes of the pageant mother and a sample of mothers taken from the 1993 General Social Survey. The results suggested that pageant mothers were more supportive about the changing roles of women. In addition, mothers were given an attractiveness scale on which they rated themselves and their daughters. Data analysis on a variety of variables was carried out at univariate and bivariate levels.
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Bowers, Ebony. "Social Stereotyping and Self-Esteem of Miss America Pageant Contestants." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2791.

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Miss America Pageant contestants (MAPCs) have been negatively stereotyped socially for their perceived lack of intelligence and nonconformance to feminist gender stereotypes of women. Stereotypes could affect an individual's social psyche and establish stigma, which could prevent a group from achieving their full potential. Stereotypes could also result in women having mental health disorders, low self-esteem, a decrease in self-efficacy, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorders. The problem this study addressed was that women who participate in the Miss America Organization (MAO) preliminary pageants risk social stigma for taking part in a seemingly nonfeminist activity. Intercultural communication research (ICR) was the theoretical framework utilized to understand the role of cultural stereotypes, prejudice in communication, and self-perception among MAPCs. The main research question examined how local preliminary MAPC's decide to participate in pageantry in relation to their beliefs about stereotypes of MAPCs. For this multiple case study, a sample of MAPCs (n =5) from a Southeastern state was recruited to participate in interviews and provided narrative data that was coded and analyzed for themes of stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. The key findings from this study revealed that the participants believed that societal stereotypes of MAPCs still exist, but the stereotypes did not influence participants' self-esteem, self-efficacy, and their decisions to compete and represent their social platform. The results also revealed a need for societal education about MAO pageant system's mission. Positive social change can come from understanding the MAPC subculture to dispel societal stereotypes and through presenting MAPCs' goals as social change agents.
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Perry, Pamela Ann. "Behind the Curtain of the Beauty Pageant: An Investigation of U.S. News Undergraduate Business Program Rankings." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194322.

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The undergraduate business program rankings in USNWR are based solely on peer assessments from deans and associate deans of AACSB accredited U.S. business schools. Often these reputation-based rankings are discounted and likened to a beauty pageant because the process lacks transparent input data.In this study, ten deans and ten associate deans representing top 50 USNWR undergraduate business programs were interviewed. Seven of the institutions are public and three are private and all but two universities are AAU member institutions.The research answers the following questions: how do deans and associate deans define quality in their school's undergraduate program and in other schools' programs? How are administrators influenced when evaluating the reputation of peer schools? Are competitors treated differently when evaluating academic reputation? What methods are administrators utilizing to influence brand perception with their stakeholder and educational peers?Business school deans and associate deans emphasized different aspects of an undergraduate program in their description of quality. The deans most valued quality from faculty and research. The associate deans valued the undergraduate experience including sense of community, engagement, involvement, leadership, student services, as creating distinction in a program.Business school administrators are barraged by influences that affect their perceptions about program reputations. Overall the influences on perception included quality of faculty, research, student standardized test scores, resources, characteristics of an institution, professional involvement and social networks including networks with faculty, students, other professionals and employers that provide feedback about schools. Professional involvement and social networks (PhD students, other deans, siblings, friends, students, employers, etc.) provided administrators with important insight into academic reputation. The quality of people that the administrators knew from other schools made a difference in peer schools' reputation.Finally, most schools employ integrated marketing communication (IMC) including taglines, direct marketing, event marketing, feature promotions, customer service and brand messages to influence stakeholders and peers. This study confirmed that everyone in a business school is a brand manager because brand is influenced through numbers of interactions over time with a variety of stakeholders. True to the IMC framework, business schools have moved to a relationship driven educational model.
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de, Windt Jassir. "Will Beauty Save the World? A historical context study of the Miss Venezuela pageant as a conceivable contributor to communication for development." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22325.

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In recent years, old-hand development scholars, in the category of Dan Brockington, have expressed their concern over academia’s neglect of the significance of celebrities in the field. As has been the case of an outturn hereof, namely beauty pageants. In the last six decades, Venezuela has positioned itself not only as one of the world's largest exporters of oil but also as one of the leading engenderers of titleholders in international pageantry. The latter, which has resulted in Venezuelans regarding the pageant as a fundamental cultural undercurrent in their collective identity, seems to be a ceaseless manifestation in spite of the country’s worrisome current socio-economic status. Rather than adopting a condescending paradigm towards the Miss Venezuela pageant, it is precisely this vertex of ambiguity that opens the avenue for an interesting development question. After all, if celebrity beauty queens from Venezuela are deemed as part of the nation’s identity, could the pageant, in the same breath, be deemed as a contributor to communication for development? While espousing historical context as an analysing method and in pursuit of David Hulme’s Celebrity-Development nexus and Elizabeth McCall’s four strands of communication for development, this paper presents a qualitative study in which hands-on experts are given a platform. The findings show the evolution of a beauty pageant from a, nearly, nationalist device into a system that is grounded in the Millennium Development Goals and that aims to forge socially responsible beauty representatives that are competent enough to herald purposeful messages.
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Thompson, Elisabeth Blumer. "Trailer park royalty Southern child beauty pageants, girlhood and power /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/elisabeth_b_thompson/thompson_elisabeth_b_200708_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Curriculum Studies, under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-228) and appendices.
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Price, Allison. "Playing the Ideal: Parenthood and Presentation of Idealized Femininity in youth on "Toddlers & Tiaras"." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367924148.

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Williams, Heather A. "Miss Homegrown the performance of food, festival, and femininity in local queen pageants /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245452161.

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Koerner, Ethan. "Voicing an other utilizing puppetry and pageantry for community-based spectacle in America /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1219701727.

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Johansson, Lina. "A stunning portrait of diversity? : Gender, race, and nation in Miss Universe Japan 2015." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Genusvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158561.

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The aim of this thesis is to study how gender, race, and nation are represented in Miss Universe Japan 2015. I investigate how the top five participants are represented in relation to Japanese ideal femininity and what these representations contribute to. Furthermore, I examine how global ideals have impacted the outcome of the pageant. The material consists of recordings of the Miss Universe Japan 2015 pageant, which is available on YouTube. The material is analyzed using a context focused textual analysis. Stuart Hall’s theories of representation are used to understand how representations work. Judith Butler’s theory of performative gender and Floya Anthias’ and Nira Yuval-Davies’ theories of how gender relates to nation are used to understand how the construction of the nation intersects with the construction of gender. Michael Billig’s theory of banal nationalism is used to illustrate that beauty pageants are nationalistic practices. Lastly, theories of whiteness, both in the West and Japan, are applied to understand how race and national values interact. The top five participants in Miss Universe Japan 2015 are analyzed one by one and their representations are contrasted to the ideals of the Japanese woman. Moreover, the impact of global ideals on the pageant is discussed. I find that the representation of the top five participants both reproduces and challenges the ideal femininity in Japan, thus widening the limits for the Japanese womanhood. On the other hand, these challenges, and also the reproductions, largely follow global ideals, which leads to an essentialization of global beauty.
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Yang, Yu-Lun, and 楊祐綸. "The Study of Personal Knowledge for Beauty Pageant Contestants." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38684583950873978857.

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Chen, Yi-Wen, and 陳怡文. "The Inference of Training Effectiveness from Personality Traits and Emotional Management for Beauty Pageant Contestants." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58719444772695889590.

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碩士
台南應用科技大學
生活應用科學研究所
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Beauty pageant contests over the world have a long history of 126 years. Varied from small to large scale, competitions are held in many places around the world. This research is to investigate the emotion management of pageant contestants, and analyze the effectiveness of emotion management, and compare the effectiveness as a result of different backgrounds. Hopefully, this research can be a useful reference for the beauty contest rel ated organizations. In this study, Taiwan’s pageant contestantsparticipated as the research objects, who answered through questionnaires, containing questions of individual background, people Gert quality table, emotion management and training effectiveness scaling chart as the research tools. The results found that in terms of emotional dimension “Awareness of other people’s emotions”, individuals aged over 31 years old are rated lower than other age groups. In terms of “Self-motivation”, individuals whose height is in between 168cm to 178cm are rated higher than individuals of 160cm and shorter. Contestants who competed at two events are rated higher than first-time comtestants in “Understanding self-emtion” and “Self-emotion management”. Contestants who won 6th place before received better “Awareness of other people’s emotions” than contestants never winning any place before. As for “Training effectiveness”, contestants aged 18 years old and under are better than other age groups. In the emotion management, “Cognitive emotions of others” is positively correlated with “Interpersonal relationship management” and reached a significant level. In addition, the two perspectives “Awareness of other people’s emotions” and “Interpersonal relationship management” showed higher correlations with “Training satisfaction level”.
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HUI-YU, YU, and 游蕙宇. "A Study on the Relationship between Training Model Evaluation and Brand Image in Beauty Pageant Industry." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22029589521573860599.

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碩士
正修科技大學
經營管理研究所
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Beauty pageants have a history of 126 years. Countries worldwide organize various sizes and types of beauty contests. The first beauty pageant in Taiwan was held in 1960, having a history of 55 years already. At present, the beauty pageant industry is mixed and abundant, whether the organizers or contestants. Training can promote brand image. It is important to know how training stimulate the industry development and positive image of the beauty pageant’s positive image. Therefore, this study aims to develop a good beauty pageant training model to serve as a reference to enhance the beauty pageant industry. The main purpose of a beauty pageant’s training is to change the posture, and improve the inner quality and literacy of a normal person by joining professional training into a unique beauty pageant contestant and become a spokesperson with dignity and positive image and even represent Taiwan in worldwide competitions or stages. Therefore, this study focused on the relationship of the effectiveness and outcome of training contents with personal and the organization’s brand image. The research subjects include beauty pageant experts and beauty contestants. It adopted a quantitative questionnaire (beauty contestant’s questionnaire) and AHP questionnaire (expert’s questionnaire) in conducting the survey. The results showed that (1) beauty pageant contestants are actively involved in local and international charitable activities, (2) experts and contestants both agree that the “posture and etiquette training” under pageant education is the most important. (3) Experts and contestants have many different perceptions on pageant training contents. (4) Personal brand image does not stand out and is not of importance. (5) The effectiveness of style training, handling situations, and posture and etiquette have no individually significant effect on the organization’s brand image. (6) The higher the “learning performance” and “behavior performance” of training, the more it helps the organization brand image promotion.
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Yang, Li Yu, and 楊麗玉. "Marketing Strategies in Era of Web 2.0:User Generated Content and Social Network Service－A case of Clinique Skin Beauty Pageant in Taiwan." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11211503332251885497.

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國立交通大學
企業管理碩士學程
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No one can deny that Internet has changed our life. Once that Andy Warhol said: In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes, which is the best interpretation that how Internet affects us in the Era of Web 2.0. User Generated Content and Social Network service is two new booms in the Era of web 2.0, which attracts tremendous attention and media budget that makes Internet become a magic channel that advertisers now believe in. To examine the infrastructure of Internet service and the number of people who stay online, you will find that Taiwan is an ideal environment for Internet Marketing. According to the World Knowledge Competitiveness Index, Taiwan was ranked number 5 in Board –band Internet penetration among 145 countries in the world, which can explains the reason why an Internet marketing campaign in Taiwan was chosen as a topic in this research. In this research, it focus on exploring how user generated content and social network service take place and play a role in Internet marketing campaign. Also, to see if Internet marketing campaign can actually affect consumer and form the attitude as what advertisers expected. Focus group method was conducted in this research, and the outcome reveals that consumer is capable of sensing the business intention behind the content that they received from the Internet. And when the stronger they sense the information that they received could be a marketing promotion, the less that they can be persuaded by this content. Also, we found that by using social network service can enhance the willingness of Internet user to spread the information of marketing event such as Internet beauty pageant, however, when the design of event is too complicated, it may cause user to leave it half way unfinished.
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"Legitimizing televised beauty pageants: an organizational study of cultural marketing." 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889572.

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by Maria Chen.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [81-85]).
Abstract also in Chinese.
Chapter Ch. 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1. --- The tension of the double goals in media organization --- p.2
Chapter 2. --- Research question --- p.3
Chapter 3. --- Significance --- p.3
Chapter Ch. 2 --- Beauty pageants and television --- p.5
Chapter 1. --- History --- p.5
Chapter (A) --- "Miss USA, Miss Universe" --- p.5
Chapter (B) --- Increasing popularity of beauty pageants in Hong Kong… --- p.5
Chapter 2. --- Formats of beauty pageants --- p.8
Chapter (A) --- TVB --- p.8
Chapter (B) --- ATV --- p.9
Chapter 3. --- Why beauty pageants? --- p.10
Chapter (A) --- A popular TV program --- p.10
Chapter (B) --- Controversial media product --- p.11
Chapter Ch. 3 --- Corporate image and the tension between profit-making and social responsibility: a theoretical linkage --- p.15
Chapter 1. --- Theoretical tension between the two goals --- p.15
Chapter (A) --- The goal of responsibility --- p.15
Chapter (B) --- The goal of profit --- p.19
Chapter (C) --- The relationship between profit and responsibility --- p.20
Chapter (D) --- The source of tension --- p.21
Chapter (E) --- The conflict and compatibility of the double goals --- p.22
Chapter 2. --- The method of tension resolution --- p.24
Chapter (A) --- Marketing --- p.24
Chapter (B) --- Corporate Image --- p.26
Chapter (C) --- The position taken in this thesis --- p.30
Chapter Ch. 4 --- Research methods --- p.32
Chapter 1. --- Hypotheses --- p.32
Chapter 2. --- Methodology --- p.33
Chapter (A) --- In-depth interview --- p.33
Chapter (B) --- Participant observation --- p.36
Chapter (C) --- Documentation analysis --- p.36
Chapter Ch. 5 --- Results --- p.38
Chapter 1. --- TV stations and their structure in Hong Kong --- p.38
Chapter (A) --- TVB's corporate image --- p.39
Chapter (B) --- ATV's corporate image --- p.41
Chapter (C) --- TVB's image for Miss Hong Kong --- p.42
Chapter (D) --- ATV's image for Miss Asia --- p.44
Chapter 2. --- Analysis of the tensions and resolutions in beauty pageants --- p.45
Chapter (A) --- Managing external uncertainty --- p.45
Chapter (B) --- Media frameworks for beauty pageants in Hong Kong --- p.47
Chapter (C) --- Managing internal uncertainty --- p.58
Chapter Ch. 6 --- Conclusion --- p.78
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McMichael, Mandy Ellene. "Religion, Miss America, and the Construction of Evangelical Womanhood." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/8774.

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Christian engagement with beauty contests shifted dramatically between the initial Miss America pageant in 1921 and its 90th anniversary in 2011. This dissertation explores how and why many Christians found the organization an institution worthy of partnership with the church. It examines three aspects of Christian involvement in the contest: the long history of beauty pageants, the persistent emphasis on individual physical attractiveness, and the idea of witness in southern evangelical culture. It argues that after 1965, at least two factors enabled the unlikely marriage of Christians and the Miss America Organization: the perceived threat of second-wave feminism and evangelicalism's increasing desire to engage culture. In addition, Christian contestants gained rewards, both tangible and intangible, from their pageant participation. Most significantly for some Christian women, the competition functioned as an arena in which women could serve as Christian evangelists. Pleasure, prizes, performance, and purpose: contestants found all these and more on the stage. The goal here is not to prove that the Miss America pageant is somehow inherently religious, but rather that the Christians who participated in the contest were dealing with multiple expectations from church and culture that dictated, influenced, and explained their experience. This dissertation describes the place Christian women found in the Miss America pageant for their religious self-understanding. By telling the story of Christian women in a gendered and sexualized arena, I hope to emphasize the flexibility of gender roles and religious mores inherent in Christian participation.


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Collins, Megan Elizabeth. "Losing Sight of Ourselves: Applying Durkheim. Giddens, Baudrillard and Vaknin to Reality Television." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8903.

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An application of theory to various reality television shows in order to discuss the emergence and encouragement of the false self in our society is the focus of this work. Toddlers and Tiaras, Hoarders and Sister Wives are the three television shows that will be analyzed by using content analysis in order to examine the effects of consumerism, narcissism and the emergence of the false self. The limitless character of the economy coupled with narcissism and an increased focus on the self contributes to the development of the false self within the individual. People may not even be aware of the push to be narcissistic, focused on our own biographies and self-promotion, yet people are aware of their suffering and unhappiness. Many individuals are left questioning why it is that they are never completely satisfied even as they accumulate notoriety, success, material wealth and possessions. An ideology of greatness and being the best is found in so many avenues of our daily lives, and at times it can be overwhelming, and if we do not possess these skills and qualities we are encouraged to just fake it.
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