Hope in a Jar : The Making of America's Beauty Culture /

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...

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Main Author: Peiss, Kathy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
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