Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 041592667X ISBN 13: 9780415926676

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2001

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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).

Product Description:

Historians explore how our ideas of "attractiveness" are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They illuminate the ways in which beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America through studying examples such as the sexual dynamics of bathing suits, the deeper meanings of corsets and the social role of the African - American hair salon.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 041592667X
• ISBN 13: 9780415926676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 346
• Redattore: Scranton Philip