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Author Peiss, Kathy Lee.

Title Hope in a jar : the making of America's beauty culture / Kathy Peiss.

Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  TT957 .P45 1998    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-318) and index.
Contents Masks and faces -- Women who painted -- Beauty culture and women's commerce -- The rise of the mass market -- Promoting the made-up woman -- Everyday cosmetic practices -- Shades of difference -- Identity and the market.
Subject Beauty culture -- United States -- History.
Beauty culture.
United States.
History.
Cosmetics -- United States -- History.
Cosmetics.
ISBN 0805055509 hardback alkaline paper