The Making of America's Beauty Culture
by
Kathy Peiss
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
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?
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