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Beauty and Business

Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-415-92666-9
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 20.12.2000
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Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780415926669
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-92666-9
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 20.12.2000
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2000
  • Serie: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 713 g
  • Seiten: 346
  • Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 25 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Herausgeber

Contents Preface, Philip Scranton Acknowledgments On Beauty,.and the History of Business, Kathy Peiss Part 1: Images and Reforms Any Desired Length: Negotiating Gender Through Sports Clothing, 1870-1925, Sarah A. Gordon Questionable Beauty: The Dangers and Delights of the Cigarette in American Society, 1880-1930, Nancy Bowman Collars and Consumers: Changing Images of American Manliness and Beauty, Carole Turbin Fighting the Corsetless Evil: Shaping Corsets and Cultures, 1900-1930, Jill Fields Part 2: Business and Work A Depression-Proof Business Strategy: The California Perfume Company's Motivational Literature, Katina L. Manko I Had My Own Business. So I Didn't Have to Worry: Beauty Salons, Beauty Culturists and the Politics of African-American Female Entrepreneurship, Tiffany Melissa Gill At the Curve Exchange: Postwar Beauty Culture and Working Women at Maidenform, Vicki Howard Estee Lauder: Self- Definition and the Modern Cosmetics Market, Nancy Koehn Part 3: Constructing Commodiities Black is Profitable: The Commodification of the Afro, 1960-1975, Susannah Walker Loveliest Daughter of Our Ancient Cathay!: Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U.S.A Beauty Pagent, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Hiding the Scars: History of Breast Prostheses After Mastectomy Since 1945, Kirsten E. Gardner Notes on the Contributors Index