{"product_id":"hope-in-a-jar-kathy-peiss-9780812221671","title":"Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a \"kitchen physic,\" as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHope in a Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. And 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 and conversation. Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, \u003ci\u003eHope in a Jar\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathy Peiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812221672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812221671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Kathy Peiss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988283752703,"sku":"9780812221671","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68ef8e08-002b-437d-baa3-8add49548fb3.jpg?v=1683293659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hope-in-a-jar-kathy-peiss-9780812221671","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}