| Description |
208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why we need to talk about makeup -- Working it -- Hey, sexy -- Expanding gender -- Safety not guaranteed -- Too few shades -- Pow(d)erful -- The cost of beauty -- Tools of resistance. |
| Summary |
"Examines how people use makeup as a strategy and a coping mechanism to get by in a world not made for them"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, but often the choice is not entirely hers to make. Nudson unpacks makeup's cultural impact: how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function in the workplace, to name a few examples. She examines the ways that beauty standards differ across race, class, and culture-- and why we all need to care. -- adapted from jacket |
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Beauty culture -- History.
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Cosmetics -- Social aspects -- History.
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Beauty, Personal -- History.
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Identity (Psychology) -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
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Beauty culture. (OCoLC)fst00829353
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Beauty, Personal. (OCoLC)fst00829396
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Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Nudson, Rae, 1987- All made up Boston : Beacon Press, 2021 9780807059821 (DLC) 2021003303 |
| ISBN |
9780807059685 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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0807059684 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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9780807059821 (ebook) |
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