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Sarah Banet-Weiser, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 31-57.
Rise and Fall of Beauty Pageants
Beckley, B. (ed.) (1998). Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a new aesthetics. New York: Allworth Press. Focuses on the question of beauty as portrayed in art and provides information regarding the relationship between Venus and beauty.
Venus in Art
Lois W. Banner, American Beauty (New York: Knopf, 1983), p. 451; Colleen Ballerino Cohen, Richard Wilk and Beverly Stoeltje (eds), Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests and Power (London: Routledge, 1997), pp 3-5.
Rise and Fall of Beauty Pageants
Hutchings, Karen. (2000). Beauty Begins at 7am: Cosmetics, Fashion, Consumer Goods and Beauty Mythology in 1950s and 1960s. Journal of Australian Studies, 44.
The Beauty Pageant Culture
Banet-Weiser, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, pp. 10-13; Cohen et al, Beauty Queens, pp. 5-8.
Rise and Fall of Beauty Pageants
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