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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marcia Ochoa, Marcia/ Nelson Ochoa
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2014
• EAN: 9780822356110
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5611-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories