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Queens of Academe
By Tice
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Description
In Queens of Academe, Karen W. Tice asks how, and why, does higher education remain in the beauty and body business and with what effects on student bodies and identities. She explores why students compete in and attend pageants such as "Miss Pride" and "Best Bodies on Campus" as well as why websites such as "Campus Chic" and campus-based etiquette and charm schools are flourishing. Based on archival research and interviews with contemporary campus queens and university sponsors as well as hundreds of hours observing college pageants on predominantly black and white campuses, Tice examines how campus pageant contestants express personal ambitions, desires, and, sometimes, racial and political agendas to resolve the incongruities of performing in evening gowns and bathing suits on stage while seeking their degrees. Tice argues the pageants help to illuminate the shifting terrain of class, race, religion, sexuality, and gender braided in campus rituals and student life. Moving beyond a binary of objectification versus empowerment, Tice offers a nuanced analysis of the contradictory politics of education, feminism, empowerment, consumerism, race and ethnicity, class, and popular culture have on students, idealized masculinities and femininities, and the stylization of higher education itself.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
262
Release Date:
2012-04-17
Publication Date:
2017-12-14
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199842787
ISBN13:
9780199842780
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
561 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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