ISBN:
9780822356110
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (295 p)
Series Statement:
Perverse modernities / a series edited by Judith Halberstam and LIsa Lowe
Series Statement:
Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Queen for a Day
DDC:
306.76
Keywords:
Transsexuals -- Venezuela
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Beauty contestants -- Venezuela
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Femininity -- Venezuela
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Beauty contestants ; Venezuela
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Femininity ; Venezuela
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Transsexuals ; Venezuela
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delv
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introducing . . . the Queen; Part I. On the (Trans)National; 1. Belleza Venezolana: Media, Race, Modernity, and Nation in the Twentieth-Century Venezuelan Beauty Contest; 2. La Moda Nace en Paris y Muere en Caracas: Fashion, Beauty, and Consumption on the (Trans)National; Part II. On the Runway, on the Street; 3. La Reina de la Noche: Performance, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Form of the Beauty Pageant in Venezuela; 4. Pasarelas y Perolones: Transformista Mediations on Avenida Libertador in Caracas; Part III. On the Body
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Sacar el Cuerpo: Transformista and Miss Embodiment6. Spectacular Femininities; Epilogue. Democracy and Melodrama: Frivolity, Fracaso, and Political Violence in Venezuela; Notes; References; Index
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