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 "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over ...

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