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

by Margot Mifflin

Book Overview

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Emily Toth Best Book in Women's Studies Award

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, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress

Looking for Miss America is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640092234
• ISBN13: 9781640092235
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"