Imagining Caribbean Womanhood - Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 192970

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean

Sommario

Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context
1. The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929-1950
2. Cleaning up carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition, 1946-1959
3. Parading the 'crème de la crème': constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958-1966
4. Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955-1964
5. 'Colonisation in reverse': Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' contest in London, 1959-1964
Afterword: a Grenadian 'Miss World', 1970
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Rochelle Rowe teaches at the University of Exeter

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rochelle Rowe, Rowe Rochelle
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526150332
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5033-2
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Gender in History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Caribbean islands, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups