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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 78 illus.
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