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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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| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2011, c1998
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| Edition: | 1st Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.