Prisons in Latin America regularly hold beauty contests for female inmates to build self-esteem. The La Mesa State Penitentiary in Tijuana, Mexico; which recently hosted 'Miss Inmate 2015', is one of ...

Contests to determine "who is the fairest of them all" have been around at least since ancient Greece and the Judgment of Paris. According to legend, a poor mortal goatherd, Alexandros (Paris), was ...

Recently, beauty pageants have been in the news as Miss America, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA are all black women. While that is noteworthy, what was striking was the public acceptance of these ...

Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty ...