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Banet-Weiser, Sarah. “Fade to White:  Racial Politics and the Troubled Reign of Vanessa Williams.” In Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader, edited by Cathy J. Cohen, Kathleen B. Jones, and Joan C. Tronto. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

———. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.

Banner, Lois W. American Beauty. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2006.

Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad. “Catching the Fire.” In The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Bivans, Ann-Marie. Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown: The Complete Guide to the Miss America Pageant. New York: MasterMedia, 1991.

Blum, John Morton. V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Bodnar, John E. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the 20^th Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girl’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. 

Chafe, William H. The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20^th Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Cohen, Colleen Ballerino, Richard Wilk, and Beverly Stoeltje, eds. Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Deford, Frank. There She Is: The Life and Times of Miss America. New York: Viking Press, 1971.

Densmore, Dana. “On the Temptation to be a Beautiful Object.” In Female Liberation: History and Current Politics, edited by Roberta Salper. New York: Knopf, 1972.

Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times Books, 1994. 

Duffett, Judith. “Atlantic City is a Town with Class—They Raise Your Morals While They Judge Your Ass.” Voice of the Women’s Liberation Movement 1 no. 3 (October 1968): 1-7.

Dworkin, Susan. Miss America, 1945: Bess Meyerson’s Own Story. New York: Newmarket Press, 1987.

Early, Gerald. “Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant.” In Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry, edited by Pat C. Hoy II and Robert DiYanni, 164–182. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

———. Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture. New York: Ecco Press, 1989.

———. “Waiting for Miss America.” Antioch Review 42 no. 3 (Summer 1984): 291-305.

Echols, Alice. Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Ewen, Stuart, and Elizabeth Ewen. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Fass, Paula S. The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Ford, Marjorie. Sharing the Crown. Litchfield, IL: Publications Investments, 1971.

Fox, Richard Wightman and T. J. Jackson Lears, eds. The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Funnel, Charles E. By The Beautiful Sea: The Rise and High Times of that Great American Resort, Atlantic City. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983.

Goldman, William. Hype and Glory. New York: Villard Books, 1990.

Goldsby, Jackie. “Queen for 307 Days: Looking B(l)ack at Vanessa Williams and the Sex Wars.” In Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation, edited by Arlene Steine. New York: Plume, 1993.

Gray, Daphne and Gregg Lewis. Yes, You Can, Heather!: The Story of Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1995. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995.

Hanisch, Carol. “Two Letters from the Women's Liberation Movement.” In The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,2007.

———. “The Liberal Takeover of Women’s Liberation.” In Feminist Revolution: Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement, edited by Kathie Sarachild.  New York: Random House, 1978.

———. “The Personal is Political.” In Notes from the Third Year: Women’s Liberation, edited by Shulamith Firestone and Anna Koedt. New York: NY Radical Feminists, 1971.   

———.  “A Critique of the Miss America Protest.” In Notes from the Third Year:  Women’s Liberation, edited by Shulamith Firestone and Anna Koedt. New York: NY Radical Feminists, 1971.   

Hole, Judith and Ellen Levine. Rebirth of Feminism. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971.

Jewell, K. Sue. From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Kennedy, Flo. Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976. 

Levi, Vicki Gold and Lee Eisenberg. Atlantic City: 125 Years of Ocean Madness. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1994.

Martin, Nancie S. Miss America Through the Looking Glass. New York: Little Simon, 1985. 

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 

McMahon, William H. So Young… So Gay! Atlantic City, NJ: Atlantic City Press, 1970.

Mercer, Jacque. How to Win A Beauty Contest. Phoenix: Curran, 1960. 

Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.

———. “No More Miss America!” in Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, compiled by Robin Morgan. New York: Random House, 1970.

Osborne, Angela Saulino. Miss America: The Dream Lives On: A 75–Year Celebration. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1995.  

Pang, Henry. “Miss America: An American Ideal, 1921–1969.” Journal of Popular Culture 2 no. 4 (Spring 1969): 687-699.

Peiss, Kathy. “American Women and the Making of Modern Consumer Culture.”  The Journal for MultiMedia History 1 no. 1 (Fall 1998).

———. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

———. Hope In A Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.

Perutz, Katherin. Beyond the Looking Glass: America's Beauty Culture. New York: Morrow, 1970.

Riley, Glenda. Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History. Wheeling, IL:  Harlan Davidson, 2007.

Riverol, A.R. Live from Atlantic City: The History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1992.

Savage, Candace. Beauty Queens: A Playful History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.

Sayles, Genie Polo. How to Win Pageants. Plano, TX: Wordware Publishing, 1990.

Westbrook, Robert B. “‘I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Henry James’: American Women and the Problem of Political Obligation in World War II.” American Quarterly 42 no. 4 (December 1990): 587-614.

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. New York: Perennial, 2002.

Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

The Miss America Pageant has been covered extensively in newspapers and other periodicals, especially in East Coast publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Atlantic City Press has provided extensive coverage of the Pageant since its inception, and this coverage is available in its archives. Other weekly or monthly publications, such as Time, Life, Newsweek, and Ebony, and women’s magazines, including Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Day, and Ms, provide additional sources of information about and media representations of the Miss America Pageant.

Life magazine's "Miss America 1945" exhibit: http://life.time.com/culture/miss-america-1945-rare-photos-from-the-old-school-jersey-shore/#1