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"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.
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History, Women, Personal Beauty, Beauty, Personal, New York Times reviewed, Women, united statesPlaces
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American Beauty: A Social History...Through Two Centuries of the American Idea, Ideal, and Image of the Beautiful Woman
October 1, 2006, Figueroa Press
Paperback
in English
1932800271 9781932800272
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