"There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant

Introduction: "There She Is, Miss America" - Elwood Watson and Darcy Martin Part One: History Bathing Suits and Backlash: The First Miss America Pageants, 1921-1927 - Kimberly A. Hamlin Miss America, Rosie the Riveter, and World War II - Mary Anne Schofield Miss America, National Identity, and the Politics of Whiteness - Sara Banet-Weiser Part Two: Gender, Race, and Identity Beauty, Femininity, and Black Bodies: Challenging the Paradigms of Race in the Miss America Pageant - Valerie Felita Kinloch Princess Literature and the Miss America Pageant - Iset Anuakan Wiregrass Country Pageant Competitions, or What's Beauty Got to Do with It? - Jerrilyn McGregory Part Three: Personal Reflections I Was Miss Meridian 1985: Sorophobia, Kitsch, and Local Pageantry - Donelle Ruwe My Miss Americas: Pedagogy and Pageantry in the Heartland - Mark Eaton Waiting for Miss America - Gerald Early