Beauty and Business (eBook, PDF)

Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America
Redaktion: Scranton, Philip

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136692574
• Artikelnr.: 40824834

Autorenporträt

Philip Scranton is the Governor's Board Professor at Rutgers, editor of the journal Enterprise and Society, and director of research at the Hagley Center. He is author of several books, including Endless Novelty:Specialty Production and American Industrialization (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface
Philip Scranton Acknowledgments On Beauty
. . .and the History of Business
Kathy Peiss Part 1: Images and Reforms 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 Beauty
Carole Turbin Fighting the Corsetless Evil: Shaping Corsets and Cultures
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 Estee Lauder: Self- Definition and the Modern Cosmetics Market
Nancy Koehn Part 3: Constructing Commodiities 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 Pagent
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Hiding the Scars: History of Breast Prostheses After Mastectomy Since 1945
Kirsten E. Gardner Notes on the Contributors Index