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Thanks
for your note. Unfortunately,
your note got cut off, so all
I know is that you are looking
for some research related to
beauty pageants and feminism.
Hmmm..... Historically, you
might be referring to the 1968
Miss America Pageant in Atlantic
City, New Jersey, where radical
feminists protested the contest.
They marched outside and put
feminine products (girdles,
women's magazines, etc....)
into a Freedom Trash can--freeing
themselves from these expectations.
Then and now, feminists have
had an odd interest in the pageant--which
is that beauty pageants remain
the scholarship funding for
women. So, on one hand, they
have the potential to improve
women's lives. On the other
hand, they perpectuate myths
about women's lives--i.e. what
they should be, rather than
what they might be.
The feminist perscription for
beauty pageants probably boils
down to the fact, that until
they are equal (i.e. until they
are the biggest source of scholarship
for men)--then they will need
to feminized or eliminated.
—Amy
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