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Hope in a Jar : The Making of America's Beauty Culture /
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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2011, c1998
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| Édition: | 1st Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press ed. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women-Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C.J. Walker-in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman. |
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| Description: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (352 pages): ill., digital file. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-316) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205749 |
| Accès: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |