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Title:

Beauty and business : commerce, gender, and culture in modern America / edited by Philip Scranton.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

iv, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Beauty, Personal--United States--History
Clothing trade--United States--History.
Fashion--United States--History.
United States--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Scranton, Philip.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

On beauty-- and the history of business / Kathy Peiss -- "Any desired length": negotiating gender through sports clothing, 1870-1925 / Sarah A. Gordon -- Questionable beauty: the dangers and delights of the cigarette in American society, 1880-1930 / 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 -- 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 Kohen -- 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 prostheses after mastectomy since 1945 / Kirsten E. Gardner.

Series:

Hagley perspectives on business and culture

ISBN:

9780415926669
0415926661
9780415926676 (pbk.)
041592667X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44016646

LCCN:

00036781

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)