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The business of beauty : gender and the body in modern London / Jessica P. Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350098541
  • 135009854X
  • 9781350098534
  • 1350098531
  • 9781350098527
  • 1350098523
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 391.00942109034 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1220.G7 C53 2020eb
  • TT504.6.G7 C433 2020eb
Online resources:
Contents:
List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Backmewsy' Beauty: Agnes Headman and Aim�ee Lloyd -- 3. Upstarts and Outliers: Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson -- 4. Mobilizing Men: Robert Douglas and H.P. Truefitt -- 5. Professionalizing Perfumery: Eug�ene Rimmel -- 6. Female Enterprise at the Fin-de-Si�ecle: Jeannette Pomeroy -- 7. From Beauty Culturist to Beauty Magnate: Helena Rubinstein -- Epilogue -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "The Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those who-like their historical contemporaries-perceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture. Contrary to this perception, The Business of Beauty reveals that Victorian and Edwardian women and men developed a number of tacit strategies to transform their looks including the purchase of new goods and services from a heterogeneous group of urban entrepreneurs: hairdressers, barbers, perfumers, wigmakers, complexion specialists, hair-restorers, manicurists, and beauty "culturists.' Mining trade journals, census data, periodical print, and advice literature, Jessica P. Clark takes us on a journey through Victorian and Edwardian London's beauty businesses, from the shady back parlors of Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson to the elegant showrooms of Eug�ene Rimmel into the first Mayfair salon of Mrs. Helena Titus, aka Helena Rubinstein. By revealing these stories, Jessica P. Clark revises traditional chronologies of British beauty consumption and provides the historical background to 20th-century developments led by Rubinstein and others. Weaving together histories of gender, fashion, and business to investigate the ways that Victorian critiques of self-fashioning and beautification defined both the buying and selling of beauty goods, this is a revealing resource for scholars, students, fashion followers, and beauty enthusiasts alike."-
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Backmewsy' Beauty: Agnes Headman and Aim�ee Lloyd -- 3. Upstarts and Outliers: Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson -- 4. Mobilizing Men: Robert Douglas and H.P. Truefitt -- 5. Professionalizing Perfumery: Eug�ene Rimmel -- 6. Female Enterprise at the Fin-de-Si�ecle: Jeannette Pomeroy -- 7. From Beauty Culturist to Beauty Magnate: Helena Rubinstein -- Epilogue -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

"The Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those who-like their historical contemporaries-perceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture. Contrary to this perception, The Business of Beauty reveals that Victorian and Edwardian women and men developed a number of tacit strategies to transform their looks including the purchase of new goods and services from a heterogeneous group of urban entrepreneurs: hairdressers, barbers, perfumers, wigmakers, complexion specialists, hair-restorers, manicurists, and beauty "culturists.' Mining trade journals, census data, periodical print, and advice literature, Jessica P. Clark takes us on a journey through Victorian and Edwardian London's beauty businesses, from the shady back parlors of Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson to the elegant showrooms of Eug�ene Rimmel into the first Mayfair salon of Mrs. Helena Titus, aka Helena Rubinstein. By revealing these stories, Jessica P. Clark revises traditional chronologies of British beauty consumption and provides the historical background to 20th-century developments led by Rubinstein and others. Weaving together histories of gender, fashion, and business to investigate the ways that Victorian critiques of self-fashioning and beautification defined both the buying and selling of beauty goods, this is a revealing resource for scholars, students, fashion followers, and beauty enthusiasts alike."-

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