[PDF.75hm] Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

[PDF.ur98] Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

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 | #641084 in Books |  2011-08-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.78 x5.98l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| So Much More Than Skin Deep|By Madeira Darling|A delightful history of cosmetics, I very much enjoy the connections the author draws between feminine agency and the usage of cosmetics. As a feminist who wears makeup, adores makeup and researching the history of makeup, I am charmed and delighted, I was expecting something far less agreeable in tone.

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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 business?

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 b...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture   |  Kathy Peiss. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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