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 business? In "Hope in a Jar," historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the
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