Queen for a Day - Transformistas, Beauty Queens, Performance of Femininity in

Marcia Ochoa is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Marcia Ochoa is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Zusammenfassung

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 project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marcia Ochoa, Marcia/ Nelson Ochoa
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.05.2014
• EAN: 9780822356110
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5611-0
• Seiten: 296
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