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Maureen Wepngong

Maureen Wepngong

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On Beauty Pageants and the Cost of Comparison

The writer argues that beauty pageants, particularly Miss Cameroon, enforce narrow and exclusionary standards of feminine appearance while undermining women's intellectual worth. Through personal reflection on her own relationship with these competitions, she contends that such contests damage women's self-regard and perpetuate harmful beauty hierarchies.

Staff · 11 March 2020
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