She’s beauty and she’s grace, but is she… FEMINIST? (Please imagine Missy’s most sarcastic voice saying that.) That’s right, we’re talking about 2000’s Miss Congeniality, the pinnacle of 2000’s girl power. What does this film have to say about femininity? About neoliberalism? About… feminism? Let’s find out.

Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:

Who’s Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler) by Philosophy Tube

Why We Can’t Fix the Makeover Movie by VerilyBitchie

Neoliberal Femininity in Miss Congeniality (2000) by Yael D. Sherman

Abjection, postfeminism and the makeover in Miss Congeniality (2000) by Clementine Vann-Alexander 

Miss Congeniality’s Mixed Messages | Good & Bad Takeaways by The Take

Enchanted (2007) by Postfeminism: Gender, Irony, and the New Romantic Comedy by Yvonne Tasker

Hardboiled & High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture by Linda Mizejewski

Miss Congeniality 2: How to use a sequel to fix mistakes in the first installment by thefilmyfairy

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