Citation:
Tice, Karen W. "Queens Of Academe:
Campus Pageantry And Student Life." Feminist
Studies 31.2 (2005): 250-283. Literary Reference Center. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.
What Strikes Me Most:
3. On my search for more pro-pageant articles within KSU’s
database, I came across this article. I read the bit of abstract or summary
that it offered and found it to be something definitely worth looking in to. The
abstract states that it “Focuses on the interplay of college-based beauty
pageantry and student life” which to me is great because I am a college student
myself. I would like to believe women at this age are pretty feminist in their
views and so I thought the article would address the relationship between
idealism in pageants and actual normal students. Is it promiting better or
worse self body images?
Source Notes:
3. “Because divergent notions of nation, region, markets, race,
ethnicity, cultural identity, class, and sexuality have been historically
mapped onto women's bodies, beauty contests have been significant sites for
constructing notions of locality and community.”
“Consequently, they often reinforce hegemonic social
relations and domesticate race and class divisions, but they nonetheless can
articulate divergent identity projects.”
“On first consideration, colleges and universities seem to
be unlikely venues for showcasing beauty, yet they have been in the business of
sponsoring student beauty pageants for more than seventy-five years.”
The Source
Reconsidered:
4. When I said earlier that pageants can be great for any
number of reasons, well this article definitely put those floating thoughts
into a coherent piece. I thought the tidbit about how colleges support pageants
because it’s a great mix of beauty and brains showcased. It empowers women to
take the courage and pursue their own personal and political agendas, and that
ultimately makes a stronger woman. A stronger woman is a more challenging
woman, and the world today still has residual feelings of inferior women.
In a nutshell, that kind of controversy is why pageants are
good platforms on dragging out underlying issues and shining light on to them.
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