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All the rage : stories from the frontline of beauty: a history of pain, pleasure, and power 1860-1960 / Virginia Nicholson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Virginia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--History.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Fashion--History.
- Fashion.
- Beauty culture--History.
- Beauty culture.
- Beauty, Personal--History.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 519 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what color lipstick we adore, what body shape is "all the rage". The story of female adornment from 1860-1960 is intriguingly unbuttoned in this glorious social history. Virginia Nicholson has long been fascinated by the way we women present ourselves--or are encouraged to present ourselves--to the world. In this book, we learn about rational dress, suffragettes' hats, the Marcel wave, the Gibson Girls, corsets, and the banana skirt. At the centre of this story is the female body, in all its diversity--fat, thin, short, tall, brown, white, black, pink, smooth, hairy, wrinkly, youthful, crooked, or symmetrical; and--relevant as ever in this context--the vexed issues of body image and bodily autonomy. We may even find ourselves wondering, whose body is it? In the hundred years this book charts, the Western world saw the rapid introduction of new technologies like photography, film, and eventually television, which (for better and worse) thrust women--and female imagery--out of the private and into the public gaze."-- Amazon.com.
- Social historian Virginia Nicholson examines the social history of female adornment from 1860-1960, a century of rapid change through the introduction of new technologies which brought women into the public gaze more than ever before.
- Contents:
- Victoriana
- Belle epoque
- New century
- Jazz Age
- Modern girls
- Beauty is a duty
- New look.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-499) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781639367061
- 1639367063
- OCLC:
- 1422073639
- Publisher Number:
- 99996794330
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