Department of Education

Using Beauty Pageants to Trace the Arc of Feminism

Hilary Levey Friedman joined GoLocalProv to discuss her new book on beauty pageants in America.

Hilary Levey Friedman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, joined GoLocalProv to discuss her new book Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America. "So this is really using beauty pageants as a lens to see what’s changed for women in higher education, in employment, what’s changed in our culture — if you like RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Bachelor and American Idol, this is the book for you"

Using Beauty Pageants to Trace the Arc of Feminism (interview by Hilary Levey Friedman) — GoLocalProv