This is work in the best tradition of cultural analysis, refashioning a seemingly banal cultural object into a newly complicated and eye-opening thing.

A beautiful and compelling story of a young girl's struggle to escape a town trapped by conformity and a family on the verge of dissolution

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"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" is a coming-of-age story about Christopher Showers. Christopher leaves his backwoods Georgia home and moves to San Franci

Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual