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Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.

The history of Beauty Contests is generally accepted from the first modern beauty contest attempted by P. T. Barnum as a publicity stunt to attract audiences to his show in 1854. When he found that "respectable" women would not participate, he changed the format to a photographic competiti...

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Main Authors: Gelangang, Lucyia, Noorinda, Nur Syafiqah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Domestic relations (Islamic law). Family law
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/36758/1/36758.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.367582020-11-12T04:24:22Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/36758/ Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda. Gelangang, Lucyia Noorinda, Nur Syafiqah Domestic relations (Islamic law). Family law The history of Beauty Contests is generally accepted from the first modern beauty contest attempted by P. T. Barnum as a publicity stunt to attract audiences to his show in 1854. When he found that "respectable" women would not participate, he changed the format to a photographic competition with so much success that the idea was widely taken over by newspapers around the United States. By the close of the century, many newspapers sponsored such photographic beauty contests. In the 1920s, these contests began to be given a wider, more national character, to be used to attract tourists to specific resorts, and to feature the appearance of women in person and indeed in what was considered to be a highly questionable state of dress or undress, namely the bathing suit. 2008-04 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/36758/1/36758.pdf Gelangang, Lucyia and Noorinda, Nur Syafiqah (2008) Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
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topic Domestic relations (Islamic law). Family law
spellingShingle Domestic relations (Islamic law). Family law
Gelangang, Lucyia
Noorinda, Nur Syafiqah
Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.
description The history of Beauty Contests is generally accepted from the first modern beauty contest attempted by P. T. Barnum as a publicity stunt to attract audiences to his show in 1854. When he found that "respectable" women would not participate, he changed the format to a photographic competition with so much success that the idea was widely taken over by newspapers around the United States. By the close of the century, many newspapers sponsored such photographic beauty contests. In the 1920s, these contests began to be given a wider, more national character, to be used to attract tourists to specific resorts, and to feature the appearance of women in person and indeed in what was considered to be a highly questionable state of dress or undress, namely the bathing suit.
format Student Project
author Gelangang, Lucyia
Noorinda, Nur Syafiqah
author_facet Gelangang, Lucyia
Noorinda, Nur Syafiqah
author_sort Gelangang, Lucyia
title Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.
title_short Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.
title_full Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.
title_fullStr Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.
title_full_unstemmed Beauty contests: looking at laws in Malaysia / Lucyia Gelangang and Nur Syafiqah Noorinda.
title_sort beauty contests: looking at laws in malaysia / lucyia gelangang and nur syafiqah noorinda.
publishDate 2008
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/36758/1/36758.pdf
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