September parties, beauty tourneys and press in Guatemala. 1945-1957

Authors

  • José Domingo Carrillo Padilla Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México

Keywords:

ephemeris, gender, identity, nation

Abstract

Notes based on newspaper reports, relating to beauty pageants made during the national ephemerides in Guatemala between 1945-1954. These notes focus on the type of feminine beauty that is essential and legitimate year with year according to the national civic calendar. The realization of beauty contests, is a tradition whereby, female model, object of the national desire is transmitted. Beauty pageants were also, pockets of resistance, collaboration, and subordination of women during the years 1945-1954. The study of the meaning of the contests of beauty through the press, highlights the combination of the concepts of race and gender in the construction of revolutionary nationalism emerged in those years and that, accordingly, was cultivated by regimes emerged after the arbencista debacle in the month of June of the year 1954. 

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Published

2015-12-28

How to Cite

Carrillo Padilla, J. D. (2015). September parties, beauty tourneys and press in Guatemala. 1945-1957. Cuadernos De H Ideas, 9(9). Retrieved from https://perio.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/cps/article/view/2782

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