- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 246 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Queens of academe (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Queens of academe (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Beauty and the boar -- Cleavage and campus life -- Pride and pulchritude: campus pageant politics, 1920-1980 -- Making the grade in the new millennium: beauty, platforming, celebrity, and normativity -- "We are here": pageants as racial "homeplaces" and ethnic combat zones -- Class acts and class work: poise and the polishing of campus queens -- Flesh and spirit: bibles, beauty, and bikinis -- Afterward: class work/homework.
- LCCN
- 2011031972
- OCLC
- ssj0000658244
- Author
Tice, Karen Whitney, 1955-
- Title
Queens of academe [electronic resource] : beauty pageantry, student bodies, and college life / Karen W. Tice.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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