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Being Miss America

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Being Miss America

By: Kate Shindle
Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
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In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating and insightful history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's "ideal", especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a special focus on Miss America's iconoclasts, including Bess Myerson (1945), the only Jewish Miss America; Yolande Betbeze (1951), who crusaded against the pageant's pinup image; and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (1987), a working-class woman from Michigan who wanted to merge her famous title with her work as an oncology nurse. Shindle's own account of her work as an AIDS activist - and finding ways to circumvent the "gown and crown" stereotypes of Miss America in order to talk honestly with high school students about safer sex - illuminates both the challenges and the opportunities that keep young women competing to become Miss America.

©2014 Kate Shindle (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks
Entertainment & Celebrities Gender Studies Popular Culture Social Sciences Women Witty
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"A captivating cultural history of the last 100 years in America through the lens of the Miss America Pageant..." ( Library Journal)
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It’s not only about Godwin, but also about Miss America as a whole. Very informative and catchy.

Well-written and informative!

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