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Queen Makers Beauty, Power, and the Development of a Beauty Pageant Industrial Complex

By Genevieve Alva Clutario
Published: 03 March 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024279-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2427-9
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La Reina de la Noche Performance, Sexual Subjectivity, and the Form of the Beauty Pageant in Venezuela

By Marcia Ochoa
Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Published: 28 April 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376996-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7699-6
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By Hershini Bhana Young
Published: 17 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7333-9
... Miss Landmine Angola Morten Traavik Disability Beauty pageant Joice Heth ...
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Performing Debility Joice Heth and Miss Landmine Angola

By Hershini Bhana Young
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373339-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7333-9
... This chapter uses genealogical performances of disability by women such as Joice Heth to understand the spectacle of Miss Landmine Angola, a beauty pageant organized by Morten Traavik for survivors of landmine detonations. Looking at the website and images as a form of archive, I think through...
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The Right to Be Beautiful without Guarantee

By Mimi Thi Nguyen
Published: 20 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060000-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6000-0
... Staged just twice, first in Angola and later in Cambodia, the Miss Landmine pageant follows from a not uncommon faith that beauty is both a humanitarian problem and also its resolution. This chapter holds together the sprawling international complex that funds and conducts prosthetic...
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By Mimi Thi Nguyen
Published: 20 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6000-0
... Cambodia war disability pageant rights ...