The organizers of the Miss World pageant, scheduled for September in Indonesia, cast aside tradition this week, and announced that bikinis would be banned in the swimwear competition. For the ...

When Miss America 1951 winner Yolande Betbeze refused to pose for pictures in a swimsuit, Catalina — a swimwear company sponsoring the competition — created its own pageant. A year later ...

full lips and high cheekbones and very revealing swimwear and dresses. Beauty pageants parade these women around, objectify them, and force them to submit themselves to be judged based simply on ...