American Beauty: A Social History...Through Two Centuries of the American Idea, Ideal, and Image of the Beautiful Woman by Lois W. Banner

American Beauty: A Social History...Through Two Centuries of the American Idea, Ideal, and Image of the Beautiful Woman

Lois W. Banner

548 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction gender history informative mysterious medium-paced
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This original and engaging work chronicles the social history of the perception of feminine beauty in America from the fashionable pallor (occasionally induced by doses of arsenic) of the antebellum years to the debut of bare limbs in Atlantic Cit...

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