ISBN:
9780415926669
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (345 p)
Series Statement:
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Beauty and Business : Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America
DDC:
391.6/0973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; On Beauty . . . and the History of Business; Part 1 IMAGES AND REFORMS; ""Any Desired Length"": Negotiating Gender through Sports Clothing, 1870-1925; Questionable Beauty: The Dangers and Delights of the Cigarette in American Society, 1880-1930; Collars and Consumers: Changing Images of American Manliness and Business; ""Fighting the Corsetless Evil"": Shaping Corsets and Culture, 1900-1930; Part 2 BUSINESS AND WORK; A Depression-Proof Business Strategy: The California Perfume Company's Motivational Literature
Description / Table of Contents:
""I Had My Own Business . . . So I Didn't Have to Worry"": Beauty Salons, Beauty Culturists, and the Politics of African-American Female Entrepreneurship""At the Curve Exchange"": Postwar Beauty Culture and Working Women at Maidenform; Estée Lauder: Self-Definition and the Modern Cosmetics Market; Part 3 CONSTRUCTING COMMODITIES; Black Is Profitable: The Commodification of the Afro, 1960-1975; ""Loveliest Daughter of Our Ancient Cathay!"": Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Beauty Pageant
Description / Table of Contents:
Hiding the Scars: History of Breast Prostheses after Mastectomy Since 1945Notes on the Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
