Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

Margot Mifflin

320 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective fast-paced

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From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals―and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serv...

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