Essay Instructions: Course Title : History of Sex
Topic Title : Sex and Beauty Queen Contests
ESSAY TOPIC: "Why did national beauty contests emerged in America and Australia (among other nations) in the 1920's and why had they declined in popularity by the 1980s?"
The essay is required to be on the above ESSAY TOPIC and it's format should be as a research essay.
Required to use Harvard referencing system with PAGE NUMBERS FOR ALL INFORMATION AND IDEAS
REQUIRED TO PROVIDE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (a list of all references used with a sentence after each explaining its usefulness for the argument)
PLEASE CHOOSE 2-3 BOOKS & 2-3 Articles from the Sources Provided (total 4-6 together)and the other sources according to what you want
but please have Referencing with page numbers with and annotated bibliography at the end.
The Criteria of assesment
General Structure and developement of argument
Evidence of reading and preparation/research
Use of evidence in argument
Referencing and citation
Understanding and engagement with the issues
Style and expression, including grammer
# Sources - BOOKS #
Banet-Weiser, Sarah "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity", Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999
Banner, Lois W "American Beauty", Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1983
Cohen, Colleen Ballerino and Wilk, Richard with Stoeltje, Beverly (eds) "Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests and Power", New York and London, Routledge, 1997
Deford, F "There She Is: The Life and Times of Miss America (Viking, New York, 1971)
Griffen-Foley, Bridget "Sir Frank Packer: The Young Master", Sydney, HarperCollins, 2000
Reekie, Gail "Temptations: Sex, Selling and the Department Store", Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1923
Savage, Candace "Beauty Queens: A Playful History" (New York 1988)
Warner, Marina "Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1985)
*** Please Choose ATLEASE 3 Sources from the above List ***
# Sources - Articles #
Backhouse, Constance "Her Protests Were Unavailing": Australian Legal Understanding of Rape, Consent and Sexuality in the Roaring Twenties, In [The Beautiful and the Damned, Journal of Australian Studies], no 64, 2000, pp 14-52
Cameron, Barbara "The Flappers and the Feminists: A Study of Women's Emancipation in the 1920s' in Bevage, Margare, James, Margaret and Shute, Carmel (eds), [Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia], Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1982, pp 257-69
Conor, Liz "The Beauty Contestant in the Photographic Scene" [Show Girl and the Straw Man, Journal of Australian Studies] no 71, 2001 pp 33-43
Darian-Smith, Kate and Wills, Sarah "From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl" [Show Girl and the Straw Man, Journal of Australian Studies] no 71, 2001 pp 17-31
Elder, Catriona "The Question of the Unmarried" Some Meanings of Being Single in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, [Australian Feminist Studies] no 18 Summer 1993, pp151-74
Latham, Angela "Packaging Women: The Concurrent Rise of Beaury Pageants, Public Bathing, and Other Performances of Female "Nudity" [Journal of Popular Culture] Vol 29 no. 3 1995 pp 149-67
Matthews, Jill Julius "Building the Body Beautiful: The femininity of Modernity" [Australian Feminist Studies] no 5 Summer 1987, pp 17-34
Smart, Judith "Feminists, Flappers and Miss Australia: Contesting the Meanings of Citizenship, Femininity and Nation in the 1920s' [Show Girl and the Straw Man, Journal of Australian Studies] No 71, 2001 pp 1-15
*** Please Choose atleast 3 articles from the above list ***
ONCE AGAIN THE ESSAY TOPIC IS: "Why did national beauty contests emerged in America and Australia (among other nations) in the 1920's and why had they declined in popularity by the 1980s?"
Thank you ..