false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177374177m/698515.jpg 698515 2 Beauty products have withstood the slings and arrows of more than 100 years of public debate, charged with being guilty of everything from immorality to self-indulgence to anti-feminism. A welcome new angle on the subject of our culture's obsession with personal appearance, <I>Hope in a Jar</I> reveals that the American beauty industry was founded on more than just clever advertising or patriarchal oppression. "Not only tools of deception and illusion," says historian Kathy Peiss of our culture's powders and pastes, "these little jars tell a rich history of women's ambition, pleasure, and community."<p> The early entrepreneurs in the beauty business were often women, most of them as skilled at reinventing themselves as at making over their customers. Elizabeth Arden came from a poor Canadian family but remade her image into one of "upper-crust Protestant femininity" in order to sell her products. Madame Walker, one of the many African American women who were able to find careers in the beauty industry, rose from laundry lady to head of a small cosmetic empire. Indeed, Peiss finds, the beauty industry was one of the first to bring a substantial number of women a decent income.<p> For American consumers, the marketing of makeup has long stirred issues of race, class, and morality. Peiss addresses in particular how makeup has long been marketed in ways that assert the superiority of "white" features and skin over that of other races, and how African-Americans and other minorities in the cosmetic industry have dealt with this issue.<p> This is a well-researched, fascinating book that is more than a picture of the business of American beauty; it is a window into over a hundred years of American women's history. <I>--Maria Dolan</I> 684833 1998 Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture total:67|5:9|4:35|3:18|2:5|1:0| 67 249 129 6 698515 0805055517 9780805055511 62 5 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177374177m/698515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698515.Hope_in_a_Jar_The_Making_of_America_s_Beauty_Culture 4 0 false Wed Feb 18 17:37:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:50:38 -0800 2009
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