Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela Distant Mirror Press more than any lesbian leader

more than any lesbian leader of the 20th century

is about to change her life

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Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela Distant Mirror Press more than any lesbian leaderQueen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of