Hope in a Jar - by Kathy Peiss (Paperback)
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Highlights
- How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women?
- About the Author: Kathy Peiss is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 352 Pages
- History, United States
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Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"Incisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be."-- "Los Angeles Times"
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.05 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Kathy Peiss
Language: English
Street Date: September 16, 2011
TCIN: 91355056
UPC: 9780812221671
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-6540
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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