From Miss World to World Leader: Beauty Queens, Paths to Power, and Political Representations

Hinojosa, Magda; Carle, Jill

doi:10.1080/1554477x.2016.1116298

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“…These beauty queens win for various purposes including empowering women [21], embodying national pride [22], promoting certain products, charities, or organizations [3,6], and espousing inclusivity, diversity, and cultural identity [21,23]. Aside from signing a oneyear contract to live the purpose of the organization, winners are also granted the voice to speak publicly to advocate for a specific cause, material rewards that go along with winning, and powers for social and political purposes [3,24].…”

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The dark side of occupation within the context of modern-day beauty pageants

Martinez

Twinley

2021

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BACKGROUND: The desire to be physically beautiful is inherent among human beings. In particular, some women who participate in modern-day beauty pageants tend to spend more time, energy, money and emotional resources to alter their natural body and looks to fit socially and culturally constructed standards of beauty. OBJECTIVE: The authors frame beauty pageants as the context where diverse occupations are at play with the purpose of becoming a ‘beauty queen’. This commentary aims to discuss the origins and culture of beauty pageants, the different perspectives on pageantry work, and essential and hidden occupations performed within the context of this form of performing art. APPROACH: Using the conceptual lens of the dark side of occupation, hidden occupations are characterised by the doings of pageant hopefuls that are less explored and acknowledged because they are perceived as health-compromising, risky, dishonest, illicit, and socially or personally undesirable. CONCLUSION: Furthermore, this commentary calls for the exploration of occupations beyond the conventional scope of its understanding and the acknowledgment of hidden occupations intertwined into people’s everyday doings specifically in the context of desiring to be ‘beautiful’.

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The dark side of occupation within the context of modern-day beauty pageants

Martinez

Twinley

2021

WOR

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“…The demand for fresh-faces exacerbated the already everyday discrimination that women face upon reaching middle-age. In many electoral contests across Asia, beauty is seen as a positive, if not the most important positive attribute for female candidates (Hinojosa and Carle 2016;Prihatini 2019). In Dehradun, young women were able to gain the attention of male party elites, who often used the 'setting' to enjoy the company of attractive women, or make sexual advances.…”

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Life-course and Cohort Impacts in Women’s Pathways to Politics: Post-active Motherhood as a Time of Political Possibility in India

Jakimow

Pragati²

2021

The Journal of Development Studies

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Women's gendered responsibilities of caring for children and the home is persistently identified as a barrier to gender-equal representation in political office. Rather than solely seeking to help women overcome what are often insurmountable barriers, we argue that we also need to align our strategies with women's culturally specific life-courses, and the socio-historical conditions of particular cohorts. Drawing upon the experiences of women political actors in Dehradun, North India, we identify post-active motherhood-the stage of life after children are independent but prior to old-age-as an under-recognised moment of political possibility. While women in middle-age have the motivation, time and experience to contest elections (supply-side dynamics), the political environment remains hostile to their political advancement (demand-side dynamics). Further, the socio-historical conditions of the next cohort of women political actors, now approaching post-active motherhood are indicative of limited opportunities for political apprenticeship compared to their seniors. We argue for a far-sighted approach to research and practice aimed at increasing women's political leadership that analyses and works with culturally and historically specific life-courses for each incoming generation of women political actors.

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“…According to Crawford et al (2008), Beauty pageants present an ideology of creating competition in which women compete with each other over who is the most traditionally and physically attractive to a set of judges. Hinjosa and Carle (2016), however, assert that Beauty pageants emphasize public speaking skills, poise under pressure, engage in the solicitation of financial support, and promote the development of self-confidence. Thus, contestants of female beauty pageants are expected to engage in performances beyond their looks in order to come out as winners.…”

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Beauty Pageants, Controverted Decisions and Emotional Outpour: An Analysis of Social Media Posts on GHANA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL

2021

NMMC

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Since its emergence, beauty pageantry as a cultural even and entertainment programme has been predominantly characterized as controversial and an unwelcome social venture. Scholars like Cohen, Wilk and Stoeltje (1996) reiterate this by arguing that beauty pageants have become sites of controversy and resistance. In Ghana, most of these controversies take the form of audience uproar and outburst on social media, especially at the end of the contest when expectations are not met. Following the excessive amount of data social media generates on the beauty contest, it has become all-important for researchers to focus our attention on interrogating the posts shared by audiences as well as the emotions seeded in them. The study, therefore, examines social media posts of audiences on an indigenous beauty pageant in Ghana, Ghana's Most Beautiful (GMB). The paper adopts the Reader-Response theory, Philosophical Hermeneutics and Ekman and Friesen's six basic emotions to interrogate Facebook users' posts on the coronation of the 2017 and 2018 beauty Queens, Zeinab and Abena. Using qualitative content analysis, cyber ethnographic and thematic analysis of several purposively sampled Facebook posts, the study revealed that through emotional outpour of anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, and happiness, audience raised contemptuous and social issues such as corruption, aspersions, signification/ethnocentrism, and objectification. Withal, they also highlighted issues like glorification, and divination. Again, the study found that the beauty queens, through users' posts were represented as commodities, assertive, purposeful, heroic and intelligent. The study concludes that organizers of GMB re-consider a total restructuring of the pageant into one that embraces cultural differences devoid of commodification and oppression of women.

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From Miss World to World Leader: Beauty Queens, Paths to Power, and Political Representations

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

The dark side of occupation within the context of modern-day beauty pageants

The dark side of occupation within the context of modern-day beauty pageants

Life-course and Cohort Impacts in Women’s Pathways to Politics: Post-active Motherhood as a Time of Political Possibility in India

Beauty Pageants, Controverted Decisions and Emotional Outpour: An Analysis of Social Media Posts on GHANA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL

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