Queen for a day : transformistas, beauty queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela / Marcia Ochoa.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ochoa, Marcia, 1970- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:	Perverse modernities. Ebook Central purchased.
Subjects:	Transsexuals > Venezuela. Beauty contestants > Venezuela. Femininity > Venezuela. Electronic resources (E-books) Electronic books.
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Holy Cross Note:	Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community. This was purchased from Ebook Central with an unlimited concurrent users license.

Table of Contents:

Introducing ... the queen
Belleza Venezolana: media, race, modernity, and nation in the twentieth-century Venezuelan beauty contest
La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas: fashion, beauty, and consumption on the (trans)national
La reina de la noche: performance, sexual subjectivity, and the form of the beauty
Pageant in Venezuela
Pasarelas y perolones: transformista mediations on avenida libertador in Caracas
Sacar el cuerpo : transformista and Miss Embodiment
Spectacular femininities
Epilogue: democracy and melodrama: frivolity, fracaso, and political violence in Venezuela.

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