American beauty / Lois W. Banner.
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TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1983Description: viii, 369 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. 26 cmISBN: - 039451923X
- HQ 1410 .B226 1983
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American Learning Resource
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Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | HQ 1410 .B226 1983 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 9ALRC201100873 |
Includes index.
Subtitle on cover: a social history ... through two centuries ... of the American idea, ideal, and image of the beautiful woman.
Bibliography: p. [345]-352.
the boyish Soubrette
the Gibson Girls and the advance of naturalness
the great and small revolutions of taste and decorum that express not only changing ideals of beauty but the currents of American society itself."www.goodreads.com"
the Voluptuous Woman
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 City in 1921 and the impact of Hollywood stars since the 1940s. With meticulous research Lois Banner charts the shifting models of American beauty: the Steel-Engraving Lady, ethereal and submissive with her oval face and heart-shaped mouth
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