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Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela

Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela

Ochoa, Marcia

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Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822356260
ISBN13: 9780822356264
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: May 19 2014
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.71 Width: 7.05 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national 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 into 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 sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela.

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