From America's Favorite Pre-Teen to Miss Nude World, America offers a plethora of beauty contests and competitions for females, and the occasional male, to be crowned a beauty queen. In American Beauty, Lois Banner suggests that beauty queens...

In the early 1980s the ‘pursuit of beauty’ was part of a backlash against the repressive Maoist state. Banned by the state since 1949, beauty contests were quickly co-opted to stimulate the growth of consumer culture. Beijing Television...

A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition based mainly, though not always entirely, on the physical beauty of its contestants, and often incorporating personality, talent demonstration, and question responses as judged criteria. Almost...

The first planned Palestinian beauty contest in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been canceled following a storm of protest from Moslem religious leaders, organizers said yesterday. "I'm upset. Until now I don't understand this," said Musa Faron, a Palestinian businessman...

Thank heavens it's over. Another Letter of Intent Day. Another beauty contest with dozens of judges, each with their own definition of "beauty." Have you ever heard one coach come out and say that recruiting didn't go well? It's the college version...

A security guard who was "playing around" backstage may have contaminated Miss Puerto Rico Universe's clothes and makeup brush with pepper spray, setting off allegations of sabotage, the island's police chief said Thursday.Police are also reviewing a video showing the same guard kissing a rival...

After a flurry of accusations and skepticism, an exhaustive investigation has determined that someone did try to sabotage a beauty contestant's bid for the Miss Puerto Rico Universe by dousing her garments with pepper spray, police said Wednesday.The attempt failed because Ingrid Marie Rivera maintained...