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Author : United States. White House Conference on Natural Beauty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015031948410
Author : Timothy J. Lukes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137020901
This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism’s survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum’s exhibition of Jenny Lind is a masterful combination of female elegance and female potency in the subsistence realm. John Muir’s Yosemite Valley is surely exquisite, but only after a rigorous liberal education prepares for its experience. And Harley Earl’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air is a dreamy expressionist sculpture, but with a practical 265 cubic inch V-8 underneath. Not that American beauty has been uniformly pragmatic. The 1950s are reconsidered for having temporarily facilitated a relaxation of the liberal survival priorities, and the creations of painter Jackson Pollock and jazz virtuoso Ornette Coleman are evaluated for their resistance to the pressures of pragmatism. The author concludes with a provocative speculation regarding a future liberal habitat where Emerson’s admonition to attach stars to wagons is rescinded.
Author : Kathy Peiss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205749
How 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? 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 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, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Landscape protection
ISBN : IND:30000090123682
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : 0895774046
Each state is profiled with color photos (printed to less-than- dazzling effect), descriptive text, maps featuring major attractions, basic statistics, and such information as "historical highlights," "famous sons and daughters," "places to visit and things to do," and "oddities and specialties." No bibliographies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Megan Benton,Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0300082134
After World War I, the US was flooded with newspapers, magazines, radio stations and movies. Many feared serious books would disappear altogether. The concern caused a boom in fine editions, valued for beauty, craftsmanship or rarity, rather than content, and this is their story.
Author : Rachel C. Weingarten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1933112182
Women have been beautifying themselves for centuries - curling, slimming, cleansing, moisturising, and deoderising in an effort to be more lovely. Discover the products that kicked off the beauty frenzy during the 1940s-1960s through more than 300 illustrated advertisements.
Author : Lois W. Banner
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000042779524
"Drawing on memoirs, etiquette books, contemporary novels, and popular histories of the musical and theatrical stage, Lois W. Banner chronicles how women looked (and how they felt about how they looked) and how they wanted to look ... Here are the changing vogues ... American clothes as a revelation of sexual attitudes ... the shifting models of American beauty ... illustrated with 16 pages of photographs."--Jacket.
Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807083642
A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.
Author : Philip Scranton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Beauty, Personal
ISBN : 041592667X
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:21122707
Author : E. Watson,Darcy Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403981820
While some see the Miss American Pageant as hokey vestige of another era, many remain enthralled by the annual Atlantic City event. And whether you love it or hate it, no one can deny the impact the contest has had on American popular culture-indeed, many reality television shows seem to have taken cues from the pageant. Founded in 1921, the Miss America Pageant has provided a fascinating glimpse into how American standards of femininity have been defined, projected, maintained, and challenged. At various times, it has been praised as a positive role model for young American women, protested as degrading to women by feminists, and shamed by scandals, such as the one caused by the Penthouse photos of Vanessa Williams in 1984. In this first interdisciplinary anthology to examine this uniquely American event, scholars defend, critique, and reflect on the pageant, grappling with themes like beauty, race, the body, identity, kitsch, and consumerism. "There She Is, Miss America" provides a fascinating examination of an enduring American icon.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Travel
ISBN : 087044588X
Surveys a selection of the scenic beauty across the United States, from the winter wonders of Cape Cod to lush rain forest on Hawaii's Molokai.
Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191609619
The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.
Author : Keith Lye,Eric Inglefield
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0517378663
The unsurpassed beauty and immense variety of the American landscape is superbly captured in "The Beauty of America, a book that is fascinating to read and a delight to browse through with its lively and informative text and outstanding collection of photographs.
