{"product_id":"hope-in-a-jar","title":"Hope in a Jar","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHope in a Jar\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKathy Peiss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805055504\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMetropolitan Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e334\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe first social history of American beauty culture: a richly textured account of how women created the cosmetics industry and how cosmetics created the modern woman\u003cp\u003eHow did Powder and Paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a Victorian \"kitchen physic\", as homemade cosmetics were called, become a multi-billion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wealth of archival sources, historian Kathy Peiss uncovers a vivid history in which women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. She highlights the leading role of white and black women -- Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. J. Walker -- in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting (\"Avon calling\") and conversation. 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 feminity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, \"Hope in a Jar\" is a major work of American history and an important and engaging contribution to the study of women's lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Hope in a Jar | Kathy Peiss | Hardcover | 9780805055504 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks F 1786269","offer_id":50854256083202,"sku":"1786269","price":22.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51CBGXMAWTL.jpg?v=1792781721","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/hope-in-a-jar","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}