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From Big Screens to Pasarelas: Studying Beauty in Latin America

Author(s) -

Adriana Estill

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

latin american research review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.489

H-Index - 48

eISSN - 1542-4278

pISSN - 0023-8791

DOI - 10.25222/larr.95

Subject(s) - beauty , femininity , queen (butterfly) , art , art history , identity (music) , sociology , gender studies , aesthetics , botany , biology , hymenoptera

This essay reviews the following works: Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador. By Erynn Masi de Casanova. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 239. $55.00 cloth: ISBN: 9780292723863. Dolores del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade. By Linda B. Hall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 358. $60 cloth. ISBN: 9780804784078. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela. By Marcia Ochoa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 277. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822356264. Of Beasts and Beauty: Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia. By Michael Edward Stanfield. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. x + 280. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292745582. Beauty and the Beast. By Michael Taussig. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. x + 172. $18.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226789866.

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