Drag Queens and Beauty Queens : : Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground / / Laurie Greene.
The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Q...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 13 b-w images, 10 color images, 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Doing AC
- Chapter 1 Pageants and Pageantry
- Chapter 2 Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice
- Chapter 3 New York Avenue Where the Party Began
- Chapter 4 Camp and the Queering of Miss America
- Chapter 5 Show Us Your Shoes, Not Your Midriffs
- Conclusion Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
- Appendix A Winners of the Miss’d America Pageant
- Appendix B Drag Queens Interviewed in Field Notes, with Dates
- Appendix C Original Miss’d America Theme Song
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author