Kathy Peiss Books
Hope in a Jar
Drawing on a wealth of archival sources - beauty guides and advice manuals, women's letters and diaries, advertisements and rare market research - historian Kathy Peiss traces our modern beauty cul...
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Hope in a Jar
In Hope in a Jar, 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 ma...
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Powers Of Desire
By Carole S. Vance, Ann Barr Snitow, Adrienne Rich, Ellen Willis, Barbara Epstein, Atina Grossmann, Ellen Kay Trimberger, Ellen Ross, Jayne Cortez, SHARON OLDS, Rayna Rapp, John D’Emilio, Christine Stansell, Barbara Omolade, Alix Kates Shulman, Myra Goldberg, Jessica Benjamin, Judith R. Walkowitz, Amber L. Hollibaugh, Nancy Harrison, Ann Snitow, Kathy Peiss, E. Ann Kaplan, Irena Klepfisz, Alice Echols, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Joan Nestle, Sharon Thompson, Carole Rosenthal, Rennie Simson, Allan Brub, Anne Bobroff, Felicita Garcia, Cherre L. Moraga
Introduction / Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson -- Section I. The Capitalist Paradox : Expanding And Contracting Pleasures -- Sex And Society : A Research Note From Social History An...
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