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03165aam a22005178i 4500 001 C39A2B72D6E611EAA1A8133A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200805014142 008 200411s2020 cau b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019053730 020 $a 1640092234 020 $a 9781640092235 035 $a (OCoLC)1139148257 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Mifflin, Margot, $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a Looking for Miss America : $b a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood / $c Margot Mifflin. 250 $a First hardcover edition. 263 $a 2008 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b Counterpoint, $c 2020. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Introduction. American beauties -- Bathing beauties -- Dreamers -- Seekers -- Achievers -- Resisters -- Trailblazers -- Iconoclasts -- Believers -- Survivors. 520 $a "Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers and dissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, including Norman Rockwell, Joan Crawford, and Rod McKuen, who judged; and the masterminds behind it, like director Lenora Slaughter, who "picked the pageant up by its bathing suit straps and put it down in an evening gown" in the 1930s, transforming it from a seaside skin show into a national institution. Approaching its 100th anniversary, the pageant has survived scandal, protests, mockery, and the mutiny of a queen who got cold feet and skipped town the night she won. One winner called Miss America "the kind of girl who would go into a bar and order orange juice in a loud voice"; another claimed "she's not a real person. She's something that happens every year." Looking for Miss America breaks down the blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety and cultural mythology that has fueled the pageant, the racial biases it has perpetuated, and the social mobility it has enabled"-- $c Provided by publisher. 611 20 $a Miss America Pageant $x History. 611 27 $a Miss America Pageant. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01409685 650 0 $a Beauty contests $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Beauty contests. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00829350 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 12 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611015455.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014032.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201022609.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909062232.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024722.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20211002012641.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063603.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20210302015527.0 952 $l HNPC845 $d 20210227010439.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20201002010458.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20200929011305.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200812033811.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C39A2B72D6E611EAA1A8133A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search