Perfection : 400 years of women's quest for beauty
Lincoln, Margarette2024
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Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat's tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied. Ranging across the last four hundred years, Margarette Lincoln examines women's health and beauty in fascinating detail. Through first-hand accounts and reports of physicians, quacks, and advertising, Lincoln captures women's lived experience of consuming beauty products, and the excitement - and trauma - of adopting the latest fashion trends.
Main title:
Perfection : 400 years of women's quest for beauty / Margarette Lincoln.
Author:
Lincoln, Margarette, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]©2024
Collation:
xvii, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780300264586 (hbk)
Dewey class:
646.720903
LC class:
GT2340
Local class:
646.72
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4041554