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Gilbert, Juliet. "‘BE GRACEFUL, PATIENT, EVER PRAYERFUL’: NEGOTIATING FEMININITY, RESPECT AND THE RELIGIOUS SELF IN A NIGERIAN BEAUTY PAGEANT." Africa 85, no. 3 (July 9, 2015): 501–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972015000285.

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ABSTRACTBeauty pageants in Nigeria have become highly popular spectacles, the crowned winners venerated for their beauty, success and ability to better society through charity. This paper focuses on the Carnival Calabar Queen pageant, highlighting how pageants, at the nexus of gender and the nation, are sites of social reproduction by creating feminine ideals. A divinely inspired initiative of a fervently Pentecostal First Lady, the pageant crowns an ambassador for young women's rights. While the queen must have ‘grace and beauty’ and be ‘ever prayerful’, the discussion unravels emic conceptions of feminine beauty, religiosity and respectability. Yet, young women also use pageantry as a ‘platform’ for success, hoping to challenge the double bind of gender and generation they experience in Nigeria. The discussion pays particular attention to how young women, trying to overcome the insecurities of (urban) Nigerian life, make choices to negotiate individualism with community, and piety with patriarchy. Ethnographically, this paper situates beauty pageants in the region's past and present practices that mould feminine subjectivities. Contributing young women's experiences to recent literature on the temporalities of African youth, the paper's explicit focus on how new subjectivities form through action illuminates important themes regarding agency, resistance and notions of the religious self. In doing so, it furthers current analyses of Pentecostalism, seeking a more nuanced understanding of gender reconfiguration and demonstrating how religious subjects can be formed outside church institutions.

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Sy, Michael P., Pauline Gail V. Martinez, and Rebecca Twinley. "The dark side of occupation within the context of modern-day beauty pageants." Work 69, no. 2 (June 24, 2021): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-205055.

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BACKGROUND: The desire to be physically beautiful is inherent among human beings. In particular, some women who participate in modern-day beauty pageants tend to spend more time, energy, money and emotional resources to alter their natural body and looks to fit socially and culturally constructed standards of beauty. OBJECTIVE: The authors frame beauty pageants as the context where diverse occupations are at play with the purpose of becoming a ‘beauty queen’. This commentary aims to discuss the origins and culture of beauty pageants, the different perspectives on pageantry work, and essential and hidden occupations performed within the context of this form of performing art. APPROACH: Using the conceptual lens of the dark side of occupation, hidden occupations are characterised by the doings of pageant hopefuls that are less explored and acknowledged because they are perceived as health-compromising, risky, dishonest, illicit, and socially or personally undesirable. CONCLUSION: Furthermore, this commentary calls for the exploration of occupations beyond the conventional scope of its understanding and the acknowledgment of hidden occupations intertwined into people’s everyday doings specifically in the context of desiring to be ‘beautiful’.

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Balogun, Oluwakemi M. "Beauty and the Bikini: Embodied Respectability in Nigerian Beauty Pageants." African Studies Review 62, no. 2 (May 29, 2019): 80–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.125.

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Abstract:In the world of Nigerian beauty pageants, the bikini remains a fraught embodied symbol and aesthetic practice. Pageant affiliates, critics, and fans alike strongly debate the question of whether to include bikinis in these events. This article draws primarily from nearly a year of ethnographic observations of two Nigerian national beauty contests in 2009-2010 to show how various stakeholders used personal, domestic, and international frames about women’s bodies, and the bikini in particular, to bolster respectability. Through embodied respectability, women’s figurative and literal bodies were used to strategically situate propriety, social acceptance, and reputability for the self and the nation.

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Azuah, Scholastica Wompakeah, Adu-Agyem J., and Eric Appau A. "An overview of Beauty Standards as culturally projected within Ghana’s Most Beautiful Pageant." Archives of Business Research 8, no. 3 (March 17, 2020): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/abr.83.7745.

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Beauty pageants such as Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) normally select a lady to serve as a symbolic representation of their collective identity to a larger audience. The common tastes including fashion and lifestyle of members of a society collectively form and represent the tastes and lifestyle of its people; therefore the fashion and culture of a particular time symbolize the spirit of the times. Cultural principles refer to the cultural values that are categorized, organized and evaluated in each society. The principles governing standards in one region or country may not be same for other places. For example, the reasons for wearing of beads in one region may differ from that of other regions in Ghana. Standards are held to when they are documented and subsequently in line with cultural values. In a discussion with two members of the GMB organizing team during a national audition at TV3 premises in August 2017, they admitted that there was no comprehensive policy document spelling out beauty standards and guidelines of the pageant. The research adapts a sequential exploratory design with a population made up of all participants of GMB. The purpose of the study was to find out the beauty standards of GMB pageant as culturally projected within the beauty pageant. It was found out that the pageant occasionally deviates from its main focus of projecting Ghanaian cultural values. It should therefore regularly refer to its objectives while exhibiting all its activities.

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Farrales, May. "Repurposing beauty pageants: The colonial geographies of Filipina pageants in Canada." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37, no. 1 (October 10, 2018): 46–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775818796502.

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This paper considers how notions of beauty and performances at pageants transform as they move across different colonial times and spaces. It examines how gender, racial, and sexual subjectivities take shape among cisgender Filipina women who participate and organize community-based pageants on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, Canada). I analyze observations and interviews conducted with Filipina/os who organize and participate in community pageants. Based on this examination, I argue that spatial processes make apparent the shifting nature of gendered, racialized, and sexualized pageant performances. Pageant ideals change with migration as white heteropatriarchal logics, which are enmeshed in settler colonial projects of Canada, make grooves into the ways Filipino gendered sexualities come to be in Canada. More broadly, the paper speaks to the ways in which power works with and through space through the logics of race, gender, and sexuality. It outlines how racialized women’s feminine heterosexuality is made legible by liberal scripts designed for immigrants in the white settler colonial context of Canada. Thus, the paper sets in motion questions of how intersections of power are shaped by contemporary forms of colonialism.

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Kharel, Megh Prasad. "Popular Culture of Miss Beauty Pageant in Nepali Context." Interdisciplinary Journal of Management and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (April 29, 2021): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijmss.v2i1.36749.

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This study examines the Miss Beauty Pageant in the light of popular culture in Nepali context. In the first section, the research attempts to explore different causes of having popularity of Miss Pageant such as rapidly increasing of electronic media, emerging liberal consumer society, glamour politics of physical beauty of the female and gender identity. In the second section, the research discusses two phases of beauty pageant: national-wise and heterogeneous identities based wise (i.e. regional, University, ethnic, caste, professional and institutional wise). In the third section, the article also examines the causes of contradictory opinion from Marxist and feminist force on the contest of the Miss pageant as they underscore the political-cultural side of imperialism, gender discrimination and commercialization of female body, sex and beauty. Despite the opponent voice, the popularity of various beauty contests are increasing day by day. However, specific feature of the pop culture is that it does not distinguish the right and wrong in the overflow of the consumption of the cultural practices. Consequently, opponent circles like Marxists and feminists have almost failed to stop the beauty contest in the consumer mode of Nepali society in the present context.

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Elledge, Annie M., and Caroline Faria. "“I want to … let my country shine”: Nationalism, development, and the geographies of beauty." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 5 (March 19, 2020): 829–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775820911953.

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There is little geographic work on beauty. Yet beauty offers important insights into spatial, geopolitical, and geoeconomic processes. In this article, we attend to the powerful role of beauty labor, norms, and practices in national development. We center the Miss Tourism Uganda beauty pageant, held annually since 2011, and the centerpiece of tourism-based development in Uganda. Designed to attract foreign visitors and investors and to promote a sense of nationalist pride among Ugandans, the pageant-as-development strategy is increasingly mirrored across the neoliberalized Global South. This approach relies on young women’s beauty labor: the work of self-improvement via intimate beauty technologies, and the intellectual work of learning and showcasing a beautiful, idealized, national imaginary. This labor is physically, emotionally, and financially demanding, and is largely unremunerated. Yet, it is lucratively exploited to promote local and international corporate brands, generate tourism revenue, and attract foreign investment. Despite this, pageant participants and organizers find creative and collaborative strategies to navigate these demands. As part of our efforts to fashion a “geographies of beauty”, this article argues that the power of beauty, and specifically the labor of beauty, is central to understanding contemporary tourism-centered development efforts.

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Piquero-Casals, Jaime, and Daniel Morgado-Carrasco. "Pubic trichotillomania in a beauty pageant contestant." International Journal of Trichology 12, no. 3 (2020): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_40_20.

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Kadri, Sameer S. "The Sepsis Proxy Pageant: Seeking Beauty in Imperfection*." Critical Care Medicine 48, no. 12 (November 20, 2020): 1917–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0000000000004651.

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Smith, Taylor Renee. "“There She Is”: Hispanic Identity, Academic Success, and Class Mobility in a Collegiate Beauty Pageant." Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 17, no. 1 (February 26, 2016): 41–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538192716635704.

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Widely accepted definitions of academic success are neither adequate nor meaningful for many ethnic minority students. Using ethnographic research with high-achieving Latina college students in Oklahoma, student experiences in a collegiate Hispanic beauty pageant were analyzed. These successful Latina students negotiated academic achievement through pageant performances of gender and ethnicity. Student understandings of “making it,” shaped by familial approval, adherence to gender norms, and ethnic identity, suggest that a rethinking of “academic success” is necessary.

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Thompson, S. H., and K. Hammond. "Beauty is as beauty does: Body image and self-esteem of pageant contestants." Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity 8, no. 3 (September 2003): 231–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03325019.

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Chung, Nogin. "Transforming a Beauty Pageant: Mrs. America Contest in the Palisades Amusement Park and Asbury Park, NJ." New Jersey History 126, no. 1 (October 26, 2011): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/njh.v126i1.1102.

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The paper examines the history and transformation of the Mrs. America Pageant that was first initiated as a part of the Palisades Amusement Park attractions and later moved to Asbury Park, NJ. It looks at how the idea of model motherhood was enacted in the contest for married women which had begun as a beauty contest emulating the Miss America Pageant. The contest which transformed itself into a "home-making Olympics" after the Second World War testing contestants' skills of cooking, baking, sewing, and even changing diapers in addition to judging their physical appearance truly reflected the social ideal for American women in the Cold War period. The paper assesses how the contest helped to consolidate the notion of the perfect housewife, implying that beauty and home economics went together, and contributed to the professionalization of women's work at home.

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Vimochana. "On the Miss World Beauty Pageant and Other Controversies." Australian Feminist Law Journal 8, no. 1 (January 1997): 139–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.1997.11077239.

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Cohen, Colleen. "BVI Barbie: Materializing Subjectivity on the Beauty Pageant Stage." Anthropological Quarterly 89, no. 3 (2016): 689–721. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.2016.0044.

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Matthews, Emily Schuckman. "The prison beauty pageant: documenting female prisoners inMiss GulagandLa Corona." Studies in Documentary Film 9, no. 3 (September 2, 2015): 220–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2015.1106092.

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Besnier, Niko. "Transgenderism, Locality, and the Miss Galaxy beauty pageant in Tonga." American Ethnologist 29, no. 3 (August 2002): 534–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2002.29.3.534.

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Whitney, Jennifer Dawn. "Working Girls: Economies of Desire in the American Child Beauty Pageant." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 12, no. 3 (2019): 452–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2019.0045.

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Wonderlich, Anna L., Diann M. Ackard, and Judith B. Henderson. "Childhood Beauty Pageant Contestants: Associations with Adult Disordered Eating and Mental Health." Eating Disorders 13, no. 3 (May 2005): 291–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10640260590932896.

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Snyder, Cara. "The Soccer Tournament as Beauty Pageant: Eugenic Logics in Brazilian Women'sFutebol Feminino." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 46, no. 1-2 (2018): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2018.0025.

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Mani, B. "Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant." positions: east asia cultures critique 14, no. 3 (December 1, 2006): 717–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-019.

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Wroblewski, Michael. "Public Indigeneity, Language Revitalization, and Intercultural Planning in a Native Amazonian Beauty Pageant." American Anthropologist 116, no. 1 (January 22, 2014): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.12067.

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Rohmatin, Fatkhu, and Sri Kusumo Habsari. "PUTERI MUSLIMAH INDONESIA: NEW FORMS OF OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN BODIES IN BEAUTY PAGEANT." Kafa`ah: Journal of Gender Studies 10, no. 2 (December 10, 2020): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.15548/jk.v10i2.271.

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Segarajasingham, Shanthi. "BEAUTY PAGEANT OF COMPANIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PUBLIC ISSUE OF SHARES FOCUSING SRI LANKAN LAW." PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 2 (October 16, 2017): 1416–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2017.32.14161439.

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Delgado, Janan. "Miss USA 2010, Muslim American Cyber-Discourse, and the Question of Exhaustion." American Journal of Islam and Society 27, no. 3 (July 1, 2010): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v27i3.1320.

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On 16 May 2010, NBC Universal and Donald Trump gave the MuslimAmerican community its first Muslim Miss USA.1 Upon finding out thebasics – Rima Fakih is of Lebanese Shi`ite origin and represented Michiganat the beauty pageant – many began to wonder what the appropriateresponse should be: a “Thank you, Mr. Trump” and befitting celebrations, a“No thank you, Mr. Trump” and its share of condemnation, or an ambivalent“something in between.” In this essay I discuss some of the considerationsthat made the third option a highly favored one among young voiceson the Muslim American blogosphere. I argue that their articulation of thisposition shows significant trends in the development of a young MuslimAmerican cyber-discourse, and that these trends cannot be fully understoodwithout paying due attention to a shared sense of exhaustion among youngMuslim Americans today ...

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Cocks, C. ""There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant." Journal of American History 93, no. 2 (September 1, 2006): 589–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4486358.

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Faria, Caroline. "Staging a new South Sudan in the USA: men, masculinities and nationalist performance at a diasporic beauty pageant." Gender, Place & Culture 20, no. 1 (February 2013): 87–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2011.624591.

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Speer, Annika C., and Chari Arespacochaga. "Missing: A Musical Dramedy: Engaging with the missing through the perpetually present." Studies in Musical Theatre 15, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00052_1.

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Missing uses a historical reimagining of the murder of JonBenét Ramsey as a launchpad to examine what it is like for a woman of colour to be inundated in a sexist and racist media and cultural spin-cycle. The script tells the story of a young Black girl, Nancy, coming of age and absorbing these cultural messages. In Act 1, Nancy, a child beauty pageant contestant, learns about the death of her friend, JonBenét. Nancy is simultaneously drawn in, obsessed and repulsed by the media storm that follows. In Act 2, indelibly shaped by this childhood event and inspired by her role model Diane Sawyer (pageant winner turned news anchor), Nancy has grown up to be a reporter. She now finds herself peddling similarly problematic stories for ratings and clickbait. Nancy struggles increasingly with both the erasure of identities like her own and the salacious eagerness through which the media (now her job) capitalizes on violence against women in general. The title Missing stems from ‘missing white woman syndrome’ a phrase coined by PBS journalist Gwen Ifill and subsequently adopted by social scientists to refer to the immensely uneven media coverage favouring victims who are upper/middle-class white girls/women in contrast to the coverage and framing of victims of colour. A key goal of the play is to underscore and then question the dominant media representations of women whose stories garner mainstream attention. Whose stories get told? How are they framed? Who, in turn, are marginalized and ignored? How can artists engage representational inequity without inadvertently piling more attention on the already visible? Musicals can and should tackle questions of systemic inequity and inclusion; doing so requires more than positioning protagonists of colour in a theatrical world that fails to acknowledge the systemic realities of our actual one. Missing, a collaborative project in process, tackles these questions.

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Kim, Young Chul, Jin Geun Kwon, Sung Chan Kim, Chang Hun Huh, Hee Jin Kim, Tae Suk Oh, Kyung S. Koh, Jong Woo Choi, and Woo Shik Jeong. "Comparison of Periorbital Anthropometry Between Beauty Pageant Contestants and Ordinary Young Women with Korean Ethnicity: A Three-Dimensional Photogrammetric Analysis." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 42, no. 2 (December 22, 2017): 479–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00266-017-1040-7.

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Kim, Sung-Chan, Hyung Bae Kim, Woo Shik Jeong, Kyung S. Koh, Chang Hun Huh, Hee Jin Kim, Woo Shun Lee, and Jong Woo Choi. "Comparison of Facial Proportions Between Beauty Pageant Contestants and Ordinary Young Women of Korean Ethnicity: A Three-Dimensional Photogrammetric Analysis." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 42, no. 3 (January 29, 2018): 748–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00266-018-1071-8.

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Martínez, Juliana. "Beyond Diversity Ventriloquism: How Mujer T Is Transing Inclusion in Bogotá." Hypatia 32, no. 3 (2017): 679–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12341.

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In 2013 the mayor's office of Bogotá organized the first ever Mujer T. The event, originally conceived as a beauty pageant, generated considerable controversy. Unexpectedly, however, most of the criticism came not from conservative groups, but from well‐known cisgender feminist scholars who criticized the event from a traditional gender perspective. A heated debate about the needs, challenges, desires, and opportunities of trans women continued during the weeks prior to the event. The discussion played out through blogs, social media, and private and public conversations. Nevertheless, although there was much talk about transwomen, there was little room for their voices. This article argues that because of the actors involved, the dynamics and content of the conversations, and the changes that took place in its aftermath, Mujer T 2013 highlights how trans people's bodies, expressions—whether related to gender, culture, or politics—and self‐determination processes are intensely policed and contested, even by those whose explicit intent is to support and celebrate them. Therefore, understanding the dynamics of what happened around Mujer T 2013 has important lessons for the development of trans‐inclusive policies and initiatives, feminist scholarship and practice, and institutional and societal change.

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Wu, J. T. C. ""Loveliest Daughter of our Ancient Cathay!": Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U. S. A. Beauty Pageant." Journal of Social History 31, no. 1 (September 1, 1997): 5–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsh/31.1.5.

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Moran, Dominique, Judith Pallot, and Laura Piacentini. "Lipstick, Lace, and Longing: Constructions of Femininity inside a Russian Prison." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27, no. 4 (January 1, 2009): 700–720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d7808.

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This paper examines the construction of femininity within Russian women's prisons. On the basis of fieldwork carried out in three women's prisons in the secure and restricted penal zone within Mordovia, Russian Federation, we present unique and original qualitative data, as well as a critical engagement with contemporary Russian press sources. Starting from the assumption that the (free) female body is a particular target of Foucauldian disciplinary power, in that gender is a discipline which produces bodies and identities and operates as an effective form of social control, we examine the ways in which this disciplinary power of gender is compounded by bodily imprisonment. Criminal women are often considered not only to have broken the law but also to have offended against their culturally specific gender role expectations, and punishment applied to women prisoners is grounded not on what women are like, but on how women ‘ought’ to behave in a particular cultural context, with interventions coercing or persuading women to reintegrate into a recognisably ‘feminine’ form. We uncover Russia's exceptional and exclusionary geography of women's imprisonment, and rehabilitative and educational processes, including a beauty pageant, which seek to rescript criminal women toward a predetermined ‘ideal’ of Russian womanhood, and also explore the ways in which women seek to resist.

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Michael, Matthew. "Daniel at the beauty pageant and Esther in the lion's den: Literary Intertextuality and Shared Motifs between the Books of Daniel and Esther." Old Testament Essays 29, no. 1 (2016): 116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2016/v29n1a8.

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Schackt, Jon. "Mayahood Through Beauty: Indian Beauty Pageants in Guatemala." Bulletin of Latin American Research 24, no. 3 (July 2005): 269–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0261-3050.2005.00135.x.

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Rasch, Elisabet Dueholm. "Becoming a Maya Woman: Beauty Pageants at the Intersection of Indigeneity, Gender and Class in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala." Journal of Latin American Studies 52, no. 1 (September 10, 2019): 133–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x19000919.

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AbstractIndigenous beauty pageants can be seen as a way of re-appropriating indigenous identity. This article approaches beauty pageants as being situated in multiple systems of power at four levels of contestation: (1) reproducing gender relations and creating new professional and political opportunities; (2) constituting a site for cultural and political agency and delimiting the ways to ‘be a Maya woman’; (3) reproducing class relations in terms of access to the event and contributing to social awareness of beauty queens; (4) as a social event consolidating (gender) relations within the family. The findings are based on longitudinal (2002–14) ethnographic fieldwork in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

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Vasvári, Louise O. "Böske Simon, Miss Hungaria and Miss Europa (1929): Beauty Pageants and Packaging Gender, Race, and National Identity in Interwar Hungary." Hungarian Cultural Studies 12 (August 1, 2019): 193–238. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2019.360.

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In this interdisciplinary article that draws on the intersections of Hungarian and Jewish Studies within a framework of cultural studies and gender studies, Louise O. Vasvári investigates the socio-political role of beauty pageants in 1920s European and—more specifically—in Hungarian social, political and cultural life. The article is structured as a case study of the life of Böske Simon, who was born into a bourgeois Jewish family in 1909 and who won the first Miss Hungaria competition in 1929, soon followed by the title of Miss Europa. Vasvári aims to place Simon’s role as Hungarian beauty queen in a broader focus by examining from a gender perspective the international development of beauty pageants, of the illustrated press, and of commercial beauty culture in the 1920s. She examines the symbolic space allotted to the concept “Modern Girl,” who in the interwar [re]construction of gender and national identities came to represent both the enticements and the dangers of modernity. More specifically, she examines how the problematic gender representation of women in such pageants and their reception by the press and by the public interact in the broader interwar nationalistic cultural sphere in post-Trianon Hungary.

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Jacobson, Heather. "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 36, no. 6 (November 2007): 539–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610703600612.

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Crawford, Mary, Gregory Kerwin, Alka Gurung, Deepti Khati, Pinky Jha, and Anjana Chalise Regmi. "Globalizing Beauty: Attitudes toward Beauty Pageants among Nepali Women." Feminism & Psychology 18, no. 1 (February 2008): 61–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353507084953.

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Balogun, Oluwakemi M., and Kimberly Kay Hoang. "Political Economy of Embodiment: Capitalizing on Globally Staged Bodies in Nigerian Beauty Pageants and Vietnamese Sex Work." Sociological Perspectives 61, no. 6 (September 6, 2018): 953–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121418797292.

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How do various stakeholders capitalize off of display workers’ bodies? This article uses a comparative-case approach to examine two different sites—beauty pageants in Nigeria and high-end sex workers in Vietnam—where women’s bodies are differentially staged with varying degrees of visibility. Theoretically, this article develops the concept of political economy of embodiment to account for a network of people onstage, backstage, and offstage who capitalize off displayed bodies in qualitatively different ways. Beauty pageants in Nigeria take place on highly visible national and global stages. Contestants’ bodies signal African beauty as being fashion-forward, which propels and integrates Nigeria into international arenas of diplomacy and trade. High-end sex workers in Vietnam work on a stage that is hidden from the general public yet open for a select group of Vietnam’s elites. Sex workers’ bodies are on display to project an ideal of Asian ascendancy in Vietnam’s market.

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Martínez Giraldo, Maria José. "No One But You." Enletawa Journal 13, no. 2 (October 29, 2020): 100–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.19053/2011835x.11997.

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Olivia is a 9-year-old girl who loves singing. However, her mother dreams of her being queen in beauty contests, so she doesn’t know that her daughter has an incredible voice! Accompany little "Liv" on her adventure through the world of beauty pageants and the Little Miss Winter Tossel City to show her parents and the world her true talent.

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Kumara, H. I. G. C., and R. A. W. D. Jayawardhana. "International beauty pageants and the construction of hegemonic images of female beauty." Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences 41, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v41i2.7699.

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Yeh Chiou-Ling. "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (review)." Journal of Asian American Studies 11, no. 3 (2008): 380–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.0.0015.

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Naomi Zack. "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (review)." American Studies 48, no. 2 (2007): 81–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.0.0021.

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Wendy Rouse Jorae. "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (review)." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 2, no. 2 (2009): 291–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcy.0.0067.

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Abbott, Brenda Hardin. "Girlhood, beauty pageants, and power: trailer park royalty." Gender and Education 32, no. 7 (November 15, 2018): 977–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2018.1544363.

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BILLINGS, SABRINA. "Speaking beauties: Linguistic posturing, language inequality, and the construction of a Tanzanian beauty queen." Language in Society 38, no. 5 (November 2009): 581–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404509990443.

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ABSTRACTThis article considers language use in Tanzanian beauty pageants, where contestants’ onstage speech is the focus of explicit and implicit critique. In particular, contestants who speak English are far more likely to win than are their Swahili-speaking counterparts. But because English has limited circulation and is restricted to the educated elite, speaking English is, for most contestants, possible only through memorization. Local ideologies that give preference to purity over standardness mean that, while contestants’ speeches are often full of grammatical oddities, their linguistic posturing is typically well received. Yet once a contestant reaches the pinnacle of competition, expectations for language use rise, and once-successful contestants find themselves at a glass ceiling. Findings presented here point to the local and hierarchical nature of language ideologies, and to the need to account for the common practice in multilingual communities of successfully employing “incomplete” linguistic knowledge for indexical and referential effect. (Language ideology, multilingualism, Swahili, English, language purity, beauty pageants, education)*

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Kratje, Julia. "The Sexual Politics of Beauty: Reflections on Contemporary Argentine Cinema." Latin American Perspectives 48, no. 2 (March 2021): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x20988719.

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A sketch of the imagery of feminine beauty in contemporary Argentine cinema focusing on the history of regional beauty pageants, the way bodies are displayed, and the critique of conventional aesthetic parameters contributes to a comparative analysis of the documentaries La reina (2013), by Manuel Abramovich, and La más bella niña (2004), by Mariano Llinás, which demonstrate new approaches to old questions about the sexual politics of beauty. Un esbozo de la historia de los certámenes regionales, las condiciones de visibilidad de los cuerpos y la crítica de los parámetros estéticos convencionales contribuye a un análisis comparativo de los documentales La Reina (2013), de Manuel Abramovich, y La más bella niña (2004), de Mariano Llinás, que demuestran nuevas derivas para enfocar viejas preguntas alrededor de la política sexual de la belleza.

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Velmet, A. "Beauty and big business: gender, race and civilizational decline in French beauty pageants, 1920-37." French History 28, no. 1 (November 8, 2013): 66–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/crt083.

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Syunnerberg, Maxim A. ""Beautiful women suffer unhappy fates"? History of beauty pageants in Vietnam. Part II. Modern beauty contests." South East Asia: Actual problems of Development, no. 4(49) (2020): 210–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2072-8271-2020-3-4-49-210-226.

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In the second part of the article, the author examines the influence of new trends in social thought of the 20th century on the interpretation of the concept of “beauty” and the possibilities of women to realize themselves through beauty. We will also present the collected information on beauty contests held in the country. In accordance with the idea in the title, special attention is paid to the fate of some of the winners.

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Giroux, Henry A. "Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence." Social Text, no. 57 (1998): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/466880.

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