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“This compelling and masterfully researched book shows that what a society sees as beautiful, and the steps taken to achieve beauty and body ideals, has a deep, rich, and changing history. How Germans adorned themselves, how they altered and transformed their faces and bodies, constituted in actuality elaborate claims to class identity, gender norms, and social status. Part history of medicine and science, part philosophy, part cultural and business history, this wonderful book will change the way historians think about the potency of personal acts and individual behavior.” (Jennifer V. Evans, Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton University, Canada and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin)
About the author
Annelie Ramsbrock is a research associate at the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, Germany. She received her doctorate in 2010 from the Free University, Berlin.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Science of Beauty
Book Subtitle: Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930
Authors: Annelie Ramsbrock
Series Title: Worlds of Consumption
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137523150
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Wallstein Verlag 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48980-7Published: 20 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50428-2Published: 20 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52315-0Published: 20 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-6010
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, History of Germany and Central Europe, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Social History, European History