Article: Your nostalgia; BEAUTY CONTESTS.

Article: Beauty Contests
Dictionary of American History;      450 words ...BEAUTY CONTESTS BEAUTY CONTESTS evolved from early-twentieth-century bathing-beauty contests, where women participated in swimsuit competitions in beach resort cities. The Miss America pageant, which became the standard for American beauty ...

Article: PRETTY BABIES: CHILD BEAUTY CONTESTS DRAW ...
The Virginian Pilot;  January 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... in the pageant. Suddenly, child beauty contests - with their miniature tiaras and ... repeatedly to the subject of child beauty contests. Not because there's a suspicion that beauty contests contributed to her death but because ...

Encyclopedia entry: beauty contests
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ...beauty contests In its modern form, the beauty ... Previously treated with suspicion, beauty contests proliferated in the 1950s, with ... and the winner the community, beauty contests are often embedded in negotiations ...

Article: Beauty contests - the stakes are big.
U.S. News & World Report;  August 6, 1984 ;     700+ words ...Are the thousands of beauty contests held in the U.S. each year ... her with a bouquet of roses. Beauty contests range from such extravaganzas ... variety of backgrounds. Will beauty contests suffer lasting damage from this ...

Article: Miss World and the Marxists.(opposition to beauty ...
The Economist (US);  September 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... in Bangalore in November. They say beauty contests turn women into commodities. One ... enough, say the protesters. Not that beauty contests are entirely new to India: Indians ... uncompromisingly prudish rather than prurient. Beauty contests such as the one for Miss India are ...

Article: Rewriting patriarchal scripts: women, labor, and popular culture ...
Journal of Social History;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 1) This national passion for beauty contests traces its roots back to the 1920s ... pageant shared the global logic of beauty contests in placing gender norms and idealized ... and ethnographic works devoted to beauty contests as a global form of popular culture ...

Article: Beauty contests: why we should be wary of the ...
The Scotsman;  January 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... agree totally with Rajnath Singh's view that so-called beauty contests are degrading and demeaning - in fact, I would take this ... campaigning against. Many would argue that any move against beauty contests is a welcome one - but is that still the case if backed ...