| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages): illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Gender in history
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Gender in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-196) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context -- The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929-50 -- Cleaning up Carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition, 1946-59 -- Parading the cr̀eme del la cr̀eme': constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958-66 -- Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955-64 -- 'Colonisation in reverse': Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' beauty contest in London, 1959-64 -- Afterword: a Grenadian 'Miss World', 1970. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beauty contests -- Social aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century.
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Beauty contests. |
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Social aspects. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Beauty contests -- Political aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century.
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Race awareness -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century.
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Race awareness. |
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Ethnic attitudes -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century.
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Ethnic attitudes. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780719088674 0719088674 (OCoLC)867827927 |
| ISBN |
9781781706534 (electronic book) |
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1781706530 (electronic book) |
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9780719088674 (hardback) |
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0719088674 (hardback) |
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9781526111272 |
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1526111276 |
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