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

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

Marcia Ochoa

296 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative slow-paced

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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 internation...

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