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

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

Kathy Peiss

352 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender history challenging informative slow-paced
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How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a Victorian "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were called, become a multi-billion-dollar industry? In Hope in a Jar, historian ...

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