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

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

"Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan moderity with the production of a traditional femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Mis...

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Main Author: Ochoa, Marcia, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Perverse modernities.
Subjects:
Transsexuals > Venezuela.
Beauty contestants > Venezuela.
Femininity > Venezuela.
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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