Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty

Cover
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Rural Beauty Pageant Culture, Girlhood, and Power
	Historical Roots of Beauty Pageants
	Pageant Community and Culture
	Beauty Pageants, Girlhood, and Social Class
	Girlhood Studies: A Brief Background
	Research Process
	Bricolage: Cultural Studies, Poststructural Feminism, and Poststructuralist Ethnography
Chapter Two: Situating the Bricolage: Research and the Critical Tradition
	Curriculum Studies: Tying Schools and Culture
	Becoming a Bricoleur
	Theoretical Bricolage: Towards a Critical Approach
	Epistemology
	Critical Epistemology
	Reaching a Critical Approach to Research
	Foucault: The Road to Poststructural Analysis of Power
	Critical Theory
	Foucault
	The Move to Postmodern Thinking
	Emancipation From Existing Power Structures
	Power, Knowledge, and Discipline
	The Power/Knowledge Relationship
	Time and Place: Docile Bodies
	Measuring Disciplinary Success
	Working Towards a Framework for Analysis
Chapter Three: Bricolage: Cultural Studies, Poststructural Feminism, and Poststructuralist Ethnography
	The Road to Critical Ethnography
	Working Towards Interpretation: Critical Hermeneutics
	Continuing Interpretation: Post Structural Feminism
	Completing the Research Lens: Cultural Studies
	Common Ground: Making the Bricolage
	Reflexivity
	Analysis
	Validity and Credibility
Chapter Four: Pageant Culture, Media, Social Class, and Power
	Media Influence: What Is a Pageant Girl?
	Social Status and Pageant Participation: What Motivates Participation?
	Opportunities of Future Success
	Pageants as Platform for Fortune and Prizes
	Pageants as a Ticket to Stardom
	Pageants as a Ticket to Class Mobility
	Pageants Provide Way to Live Up to Society’s Focus on Winners
	Pageants Provide Way to Improve Social and Economic Standing
	Pageants Elevate Social Status of Family
	Pageants Provide Proof of Beauty
	Pageants Offer Way to Play “Dress Up” and Be a Princess
	Pageants Make Winners Holders of Values or Ideals
	Pageants Provide Definition of Beauty in Terms of Race
	Pageants Create Moral Ideals
	Pageants Create Beauty Ideals
	Artifice and Transformation
	Pageants Are Vehicles for Developing Self-Esteem
	Pageants Instill Skills for Competition
	Successful Pageant Girls Often Seen as Superficial
	Pageants Can Be a Rite of Passage
	Conclusion
Chapter Five: Conclusions and Directions for Future Study
	Change as a Choice
	Acknowledgement of Power Operations
	Causing Change in Structures of Discipline
	Future Research
	Reflections on Findings
	Final Thoughts