Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Peiss, Kathy
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Peiss, Kathy

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

Hope in a Jar The Making of America's Beauty Culture Kathy Peiss "Incisive, lively. The model of...
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Peiss, Kathy

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

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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Peiss, Kathy

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

BD$37.38
Author: Kathy Peiss
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Hope in a Jar The Making of America's Beauty Culture Kathy Peiss "Incisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be."--Los Angeles Times 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 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. Kathy Peiss is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Jul 2011 352 pages 6 x 9 78 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-2167-1 Paper $17.95s 12.00 World Rights American History, Women's/Gender Studies

Author: Kathy Peiss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 09/16/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780812221671

About the Author
Kathy Peiss is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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