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. . . fun and informative . . . full of facts and tidbits, plus wonderful vintage photos of such quirkly contests as Miss Swim; the Fourth Annual Bathing Girl Review in Galveston, Texas, in 1923; Miss Perfection of 1938; 1945 Campus Queen in a Japanese Internment Camp in Texas; and Miss Nude World, 1971. -- Fresno Bee, 1/7/99
From the bathing beauties of the teens to the cheesecake era of the '40s Goldwyn Girls to the sequin-spangled Misses Universe of the '90s, Savage's lighthearted, well-illustrated book dives into the culture of these "pageants of pulchritude." -- Washington Post, 1/24/99
More than one hundred illustrations and photographs complement an entertaining history of the beauty pageant, from the 1850s to the present day, tracing the changing perspective on feminine beauty and its evolving role as a cultural institution. -- Forecast, 1/99
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An affectionate chronicle of the beauty pageant, from the 1850s to the present, illustrated with a wealth of photographs depicting a variety of beauty queens in all their glamor. 100 illustrations, 20 in color, 90 in quadtone.
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- "There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant by Elwood Watson in Front Matter, page 106, and Back Matter
- "There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant by Elwood Watson on page 107, and Back Matter
- In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You by Shari Graydon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernism (Sport in the Global Society, 55) by P. Vertinsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beauty Queen: Here She Comes by Elissa Stein in Back Matter
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