Queen for a day
Subtitle: transformistas, beauty queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela
By: Marcia Ochoa
Series: Perverse modernities / a series edited by Judith Halberstam and LIsa Lowe; Perverse modernities
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780822356110; 9780822356264
Subjects: Beauty contestants; Femininity; Transsexuals
Description: "Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan moderity with the production of a traditional femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves in the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexaulity, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela." -- Back of book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing ... the queen; title: Belleza Venezolana: media, race, modernity, and nation in the twentieth-century Venezuelan beauty contest; title: La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas: fashion, beauty, and consumption on the (trans)national; title: La reina de la noche: performance, sexual subjectivity, and the form of the beauty; title: Pageant in Venezuela; title: Pasarelas y perolones: transformista mediations on avenida libertador in Caracas; title: Sacar el cuerpo : transformista and Miss Embodiment; title: Spectacular femininities; title: Epilogue: democracy and melodrama: frivolity, fracaso, and political violence in Venezuela.