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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peiss, Kathy Lee
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, c1998
Edition:1st Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo