Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power

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Trailer Park Royalty

Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy, Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy

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English

Peter Lang Publishing Inc
29 June 2018

Consumerism; Social & cultural anthropology; Sexual behaviour; Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (Children's&YA)

Series: Counterpoints

Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty explores the phenomenon of child beauty pageants in rural communities throughout the American South. In a bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnographies, critical hermeneutics, and cultural studies lenses, this book analyzes how the performance of participants—most from a lower socio-economic bracket—and the power exercised by beauty pageant culture work to formulate girls’ identities. Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power also examines how depictions in popular culture through film, videos, documentaries, and television shows add to the dialogue. Author Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy suggests rural pageant culture works to create girlhood identity and shapes the way participants view the world and themselves—through intricate cultural work in terms of gender and class. This book is intended for students and teachers who are interested in dissecting rural girlhood and development, Southern American beauty standards, and the effect of the media on girls’ identities.

By: Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy, Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 522
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 355g
ISBN: 9781433113475
ISBN 10: 1433113473
Series: Counterpoints
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 29 June 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ELISABETH B. THOMPSON-HARDY received her Ed.D. in curriculum studies from Georgia Southern University in 2007. She has published with William Reynolds in Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2014) and has authored and co-authored articles on educational issues and cultural studies. Currently, she teaches English at North Augusta High School in South Carolina.

Reviews for Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty

“Occasionally a book like Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty appears and opens complicated conversations that are intriguing. Conceptualizations of female identity and beauty pageants dwell in this text within the context of Southern place. The analysis swirls with a bricolage of critical traditions. Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy deftly negotiates the relationships among language, social institutions, beauty pageants, subjectivity, class, power, and place. This book is a major contribution to fields as diverse as cultural studies, gender studies, and place studies. It is a first-rate scholarly contribution. Read it.” —William M. Reynolds, Associate Professor of Curriculum, Foundations, & Reading, Georgia Southern University