Subculture: Child Pageants

Topic: Child pageants

Sources:
Banet-Weiser, Sarah. The most beautiful girl in the world; beauty pageants and national identity
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999.


King O’ Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko. Pure beauty: judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2006.


Hilbodlt-Stolley, Lise. “Pretty Babies: EBSCOhost: Academic Search Complete. Feb99. March 13, 2008
< http://wfxsearchgalileo.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search?cid=11222 >

Living Dolls. Dir. Shari Cookson. Perf. Swan Bronner and Robin Browne.
HBO, 13 May 2001.


Crawford, Mary, Gregory Kerwin, Gurung Alka. “Globalizing Beauty: Attitudes of beauty pageants among
Nepali women. Volume 18. Issue 1. (Feb 2008). P61-86, p26

Reflection: I really liked the summary of the Living Dolls documentary that was shown on HBO. It seems like it will be quite interesting, because reading an article or a book is not the same thing as actually seeing it. By watching this film I can the interactions between the girls, mothers, judges, and outsiders and even their attitudes and behavior. Also this documentary will be useful to me in my research because I can observe the work that’s goes into these pageants, the preparations the make the girls look pretty and money spent on these pageants. This source could also be useful in the sense that I could learn a lot more about this subculture than I know right now.