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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture - Peiss, Kathy
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From New York's genteel enameling studios to Memphis's straightening parlors, Peiss depicts the beauty trades that thrived until the 1920s, when corporations run by men entered the lucrative field, creating a mass consumer culture that codified modern femininity.

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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture 2011, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812221671

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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture 1999, Holt McDougal, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780805055511

Trade paperback