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American beauty

Lois W. Banner

1983 · EN

"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.

Editions · 5

Paperback
1983 · Alfred A. Knopf
EN
9780394519234
Paperback
1983 · Knopf
369 pp · EN
9780394519234
Paperback
1984 · University of Chicago Press
369 pp · EN
9780226037004
Paperback
1989 · University of Chicago Press
369 pp · EN
9780226037004
Paperback
2006 · Figueroa Press
548 pp · EN
9781932800272

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