Hope in a jar : the making of America's beauty culture /

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In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. She shows how women, far from being pawns a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peiss, Kathy Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, ©1998
Edición:1st University of Pennsylvania Press ed.
Temas:
Cosmetics > United States > History.
Beauty culture > United States > History.
Cosmétiques > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Beauty culture.
Cosmetics.
United States.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998.
"Multi-User"
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Masks and faces
  • Women who painted
  • Beauty culture and women's commerce
  • The rise of the mass market
  • Promoting the made-up woman
  • Everyday cosmetic practices
  • Shades of difference
  • Identity and the market.

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