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Author Greene, Laurie

Title Drag Queens and Beauty Queens Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (249 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Doing AC -- 1. Pageants and Pageantry -- 2. Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice -- 3. New York Avenue: Where the Party Began -- 4. Camp and the Queering of Miss America -- 5. Show Us Your Shoes, Not Your Midriffs -- Conclusion: Drag Queens and Beauty Queens -- Appendix A: Winners of the Miss'd America Pageant -- Appendix B: Drag Queens Interviewed in Field Notes, with Dates -- Appendix C: Original Miss'd America Theme Song
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Beauty contests -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City
Gay community -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City
Beauty contests
Gay community
New Jersey -- Atlantic City
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781978813908
1978813902