Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

Author: Joseph Hansen
Secondary Author: Evelyn Reed
ISBN: 9780873486590

How big business plays on women's second-class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation."A lively and surprisingly timely historical lesson in the ever-raging controversy surrounding women, beauty, and oppression."Ms.Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, notes, index.

Publisher: Pathfinder Press
Publish Date: 1986-01-01

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Media)