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Beauty and business : commerce, gender, and culture in modern America
- Title
- Beauty and business : commerce, gender, and culture in modern America / edited by Philip Scranton.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 2001
- Description
- iv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other contributors
- Scranton, Philip.
- Series
- Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Part 1: Images and reforms.
- "Any desired length": negotiating gender through sports clothing, 1970-1925 / Sarah A. Gordon
- Questionable beauty: the dangers and delights of the cigarette in American society, 1980-1930 / Nancy Bowman
- Collars and consumers: changing images of American manliness and business / Carole Turbin
- "Fighting the corsetless evil": shaping corsets and culture, 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
- Estée Lauder: self-definition and the modern cosmetics market / Nancy Koehn
- Part 3: Constructing commodities.
- 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 Pageant / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
- Hiding the scars : history of breast protheses after mastectomy since 1945 / Kristen E. Gardner.
- Subject headings
- Beauty, Personal--United States--History. Clothing trade--United States--History. Fashion--United States--History.
- Kinsey subjects
- Corsets. Clothing. Personal beauty.
- ISBN
- 9780415926676