![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to writing and teaching, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, and public history and digital projects, and appeared in the documentary films New York and Miss America. ![]() Her books include Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986), Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998), Love across the Color: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis (1996) Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality (2001) Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style (2011) and Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (2020). Her research and teaching focus on the history of modern American women, gender, sexuality, and cultural history, with an emphasis on the ways culture shapes the everyday lives and popular beliefs of Americans across time. Nichols Professor Emerita of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. HOPE IN A JAR THE MAKING OF AMERICAS BEAUTY CULTURE by Kathy Peiss RELEASE DATE: Beauty may be in the eye of the beholderbut the power of the beauty culture to control women’s behavior is impressively illustrated in this study of the growth of America’s beauty industry. And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a womans businessIn Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of Americas beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. ![]()
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