Hope in a jar : the making of America's beauty culture /

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 a...

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Main Author: Peiss, Kathy Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Edition:1st Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press ed.
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by Peiss, Kathy Lee
Published 1998
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