Otherness in Representations of Polish Beauty Queens: From Miss Baltic Coast Pageants to Miss Polonia Contests in the 1950s
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2017
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L'Harmattan
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The article discusses how the image of nontraditional woman emerged by analysing all-Poland beauty pageants held twice (only) in 1957 and 1958. As the author claims, these contests served to constitute a model of femininity different from the dominant one in the communist period. The analysis points out the phase of a struggle for a woman's right to a public display of a female body. This way the New Woman embodied the desire to see and to be seen. Beauty queens made an attempt to be not only the passive objects of party-state.
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Otherness in Representations of Polish Beauty Queens: From Miss Baltic Coast Pageants to Miss Polonia Contests in the 1950s [in:] The Multi-Mediatized Other. The Construction of Reality in East-Central Europe, 1945–1980, D. Demski, A. Kassabova, I. Sz. Kristóf, L. Laineste, K. Baraniecka-Olszewska (eds.), Budapest: L’Harmattan, pp. 214-241