Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

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Author: Evelyn Reed

ISBN-10: 0873486595

ISBN-13: 9780873486590

Category: Major Branches of Philosophical Study

How big business plays on women's second-class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation.\ \ “A lively and surprisingly timely historical lesson in the ever-raging controversy surrounding women, beauty, and oppression.”—Ms.\ \ \ \...

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How big business plays on women's second-class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation.“A lively and surprisingly timely historical lesson in the ever-raging controversy surrounding women, beauty, and oppression.”—Ms.Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, notes, index. Now with enlarged type.

\ Book News IncHere are seven articles and letters from the newspaper, discussions within the Socialist Workers Party, and an exchange of letters between its members taking up the issue from a materialist viewpoint.\ \