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Queen for a day : transformistas, beauty queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela
- Author
- Ochoa, Marcia, 1970-
- Title
- Queen for a day : transformistas, beauty queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela / Marcia Ochoa.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Description
- xi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Uniform series
- Perverse modernities.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Transsexuals--Venezuela. Beauty contestants--Venezuela. Femininity--Venezuela.
- ISBN
- 9780822356110 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822356112 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822356264 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822356260 (pbk. : alk. paper)