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Hope in a jar : the making of America's beauty culture / Kathy Peiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peiss, Kathy Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmetics--United States--History.
- Cosmetics.
- Beauty culture--United States--History.
- Beauty culture.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xii, 334 pages) :) : illustrations, digital file
- Edition:
- First Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press edition.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : 2012.
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Masks and faces
- Women who painted
- Beauty culture and women's commerce
- The rise of the mass market
- Promoting the made-up woman
- Everyday cosmetic practices
- Shades of difference
- Identity and the market.
- Notes:
- OldControl:muse9780812205749.
- Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998.
- "Multi-User"
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-316) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780812205749
- 081220574X
- OCLC:
- 794702272
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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