Author Archive: Hilary Levey Friedman

On Writing HERE SHE IS: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America

I wrote Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America, a book that uses beauty pageants to show how American femininity has changed over the centuries, because I thought it was a book I was uniquely positioned to author. I’m a sociologist and professor at Brown University, where one of my […]