Imagining Caribbean Womanhood - Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929-70

Informationen zum Autor Rochelle Rowe teaches at the University of Exeter Klappentext Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean Zusammenfassung Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context1. The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929-19502. Cleaning up carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition, 1946-19593. Parading the 'crème de la crème': constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958-19664. Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955-19645. 'Colonisation in reverse': Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' contest in London, 1959-1964Afterword: a Grenadian 'Miss World', 1970 BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Rochelle Rowe
• Assisted by: Pamela Sharpe (Editor), Penny Summerfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780719088674
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History; Gender in History (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, HISTORY / Women