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Hope in a Jar : The Making of America's Beauty Culture /
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Masks and Faces
- 2. Women Who Painted
- 3. Beauty Culture and Women's Commerce
- 4. The Rise of the Mass Market
- 5. Promoting the Made-Up Woman
- 6. Everyday Cosmetic Practices
- 7. Shades of Difference
- 8. Identity and the Market
- Notes
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Index