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

by Marcia Ochoa

Book Overview

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 international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822356260
• ISBN13: 9780822356264
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"