Variant title |
Pageants, parlors, and pretty women |
Contents |
Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty contests in the rural South -- Thrones of their own : body and beauty contests among Southern black women -- Bodies politic : beauty and racial crisis in the civil rights era -- Conclusion. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index. |
LCCN | 2013035602 |
ISBN | 9781469614205 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1469614200 (hbk. : alk. paper) |