Author : Ann-Marie Bivans
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780806516431
Presents advice on the best attitude, clothes and accessories, and performance techniques for beauty pageant competition
Author : Marie Fenton Griffing
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780671250454
Offers advice on poise, makeup and judges' interviews, talks with pageant winners, and describes major pageants and their requirements
Author : Mukarram Khan
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2019-09-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781086781601
A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BEAUTY PAGEANT will ultimately equip you with all the skills needed to be a pageant. A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BEAUTY PAGEANT will show you the proven, step-by-step system to mastering your performance and achieving everything you've ever wanted. Here is a Preview of What You Will Learn. · 1.How to master each area of competition· 2.Learn how to get in the right mindset to win· 3.Performance techniques that give you an edge· 4. How to create a first impression no one will forget· 5. How to choose the right attire for each competition· 6.Proper poise and how to carry yourself on stage· 7. The tough questions and how to answer them with ease.· 8. How to improve your public speaking skills· 9. The essential tool kit that every pageant must-have.· And much, much more! Pageantry can be learned, coached, practised, perfected, and WON.
Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080708364X
A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.
Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807083283
A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.
Author : Alycia Darby Zimnoch
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Beauty contestants
ISBN : 9781520947778
Do you want to know EXACTLY what to change to WIN your pageant?Do you need a PAGEANT COACH that isn't afraid to tell you the truth?Listen, YOU know you are meant for something SPECTACULAR, but you haven't cracked the code to win big.You're in the right place. This honest and direct book will teach you exactly what you need to know to show up for your pageant as a TOP CONTENDER, positioned to WIN and prepared to perform with the greatest CONFIDENCE. Beauty, Truth and Grace is like having your personal coach in your back pocket - an entire coaching system with step-by-step trainings that leave nothing to chance. You'll know you're on the RIGHT path. Pageantry is a beautiful, wonderful, EXCITING world - especially if you win. Listen, it's no secret that pageantry gets confusing. It sometimes feels like they want it to be complex so that it's harder to win. Pageant contestants get confused by the often conflicting ideas of what it really take for a woman to climb to the top. When you're new to pageantry or just haven't had a title big enough to break into this wild, beautiful, thrilling world, it's hard to know what really goes on in the judges minds and what the competition is doing to STAND OUT. The simple concepts that are revealed in Beauty, Truth and Grace show you EXACTLY how to prepare so you are easily positioned to win. Alycia has been coaching clients around the globe for over 10 years. She is the host of the iTunes #1 pageant podcast and creator of her signature course, Pageant Interview Game Plan. Alycia has competed in every major pageant system across the United States and held several titles including Miss Maryland and Miss California. She has judged pageants, hosted pageants, choreographed for pageants, and now coaches women to win their pageants around the world. Alycia's master's degree in adult learning theory allows her to structure her training to best adhere to a woman so that her techniques are easily understood and perfectly aligned. Her success has allowed her to be featured in magazines and tv shows including OK! Magazine, PopSugarTV, The Steve Harvey Show, NBC, and more. No one has a better combination of the breadth of experience and technical training than Alycia does to deliver this level of coaching in such a simple form for you to apply to your own pageant preparation. Alycia breaks down all the phases of Comprehensive Pageant Preparation Plan into an easy-to-follow guide for you that will simplify the complexities of pageantry so that you can see exactly what separates winners from the rest of the competition. After reading this book, you'll be able to: Showcase your pageant BRAND on stage Communicate to your judges why YOU are the BEST person to win the pageant Control your pageant INTERVIEW (even before you arrive) Manage your nerves and Speak with ease Stand out as the Most OBVIOUS choice to win the pageant In order to win you have to do three things: 1. Radiate Beauty so everyone you meet will want to know you and adore you. 2. Know the Truth about what you bring to the table as a winner so that no one can beat you. 3. Present Grace with your look, communication, and performanceHINT: it doesn't have to cost a lot of money to win, but I'll show you how to raise big bucks if you want to spend a lot anyway Follow the advice in this book and you will be able to confidently compete against even the most seasoned pageant competition. You'll get immediate clarity about how you can soar in pageantry and take home the crown - it's simpler than you think. Are you ready to win your pageant?Scroll to the top and click the "BUY NOW" button.
Author : Margot Mifflin
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1640094903
Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies Award From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.
Author : Sarah Banet-Weiser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520922600
Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.
Author : Susan Duff
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Beauty, Personal
ISBN : 9780698111950
Author : Libba Bray
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545388716
From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.
