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Dying to be beautiful : the fight for safe cosmetics / Gwen Kay.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kay, Gwen.
- Series:
- Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
- Women, gender, and health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmetics--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Cosmetics.
- Cosmetics industry--United States--History.
- Cosmetics industry.
- Cosmetics--Health aspects--United States--History.
- United States. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
- United States.
- Cosmetics--adverse effects.
- Cosmetics--Health aspects.
- History.
- Cosmetics--Law and legislation.
- Cosmetics--history.
- Health Policy--history.
- Legislation, Drug--history.
- Women's Health--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cosmetics--adverse effects.
- United States.
- Cosmetics--history.
- Health Policy--history.
- Legislation, Drug--history.
- Women's Health--history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Dying to Be Beautiful tells the story of how cosmetics came to be regulated in early-20th-century America. In 1906, the Food and Drug Administration was given the power to control food and drugs. Not until 1938 were other products that went into or onto the body, including cosmetics, similarly regulated. The intervening years saw death by depilatory and blindness by mascara and a rise in consumer and grassroots political activism. This book examines who fought for regulation of these inherently feminine products and why it took so long for their goals to be achieved.
- Contents:
- "A victory of the women of this country"
- "The arts and crafts of the modern flapper"
- "Marring the fair face of nature"
- "Some protection to our health, our looks and our pocketbooks"
- "The big cosmetic houses aren't sorry that the regulation has come."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814209904
- 0814251382
- OCLC:
- 56527287
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