Dying to be beautiful : the fight for safe cosmetics / by Kay, Gwen

Table of Contents: “…"A victory of the women of this country" -- "The arts and crafts of the modern flapper" -- "Marring the fair face of nature" -- "Some protection to our health, our looks and our pocketbooks" -- "The big cosmetic houses aren't sorry that the regulation has come."…”
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Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / by Karim-Cooper, Farah

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture -- Beautys red and virtues white58; Treatises on Beauty -- The Poetry of Love44; Beauty and Courtship -- Beauty in Pictures58; Plays and Emblem Books -- Chapter 2 Early Modern Cosmetic Culture -- The Devils craft58; The Opposition to Cosmetics -- She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares -- Painting the Queen -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy -- The artificial shine58; Painted Language -- Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy -- Dainty preserved flesh58; Fetishising the Painted Body -- Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics -- Beautified and Heroic58; Websters Painted Ladies -- Rethinking Websters Imagery -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Jonsons Cosmetic Ritual -- Pieced beauty58; Cosmetics as Prosthetics -- Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy -- Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate -- Ingredient Culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy -- Painting Players -- Beautifying Poetic Drama -- Chapter 7 Deceived with ornament58; Shakespeares Venice -- Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice -- Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Flattering Unction58; Cosmetics in Hamlet -- Appearances and Realities58; Painted Faces in Hamlet -- Mousetraps -- Cosmeticised Bodies and the Female Interior -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page.…”
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Selling beauty : cosmetics, commerce, and French society, 1750-1830 / by Martin, Morag

Subjects: “…Cosmetics industry France History.…”
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Beauty imagined : a history of the global beauty industry / by Jones, Geoffrey, 1952-

Subjects: “…Cosmetics industry History.…”
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Vernacular industrialism in China : local innovation and translated technologies in the making of a cosmetics empire, 1900-1940 / by Lean, Eugenia, 1968-

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Hope in a jar : the making of America's beauty culture / by Peiss, Kathy Lee

Table of Contents: “…Masks and faces -- Women who painted -- Beauty culture and women's commerce -- The rise of the mass market -- Promoting the made-up woman -- Everyday cosmetic practices -- Shades of difference -- Identity and the market.…”
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Classic beauty : the history of make-up / by Hernandez, Gabriela, 1965-

Subjects: “…Cosmetics History.…”

Suzanne Noël : cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early twentieth-century France / by Martin, Paula J.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 La Belle Époque: Paris, Medical School and a Young Suzanne Noël (1878-1914); 2 Personal Disasters, World War I, and "Broken Faces" (1914-1930); 3 Cosmetic Surgery: "A Boon to Women" in a French Beauty Culture; 4 Suzanne: Liberal Feminist, and Yet Politely Radical; 5 Suzanne Noël, Godmother of Soroptimist International; 6 A Female Plastic Surgeon and Innovative Pioneer; 7 Noël's Legacy: A Life Dedicated to Others; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Painting the skin : pigments on bodies and codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica /

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- The yellow women : naked skin, everyday cosmetics, and ritual body painting in postclassic Nahua society / Élodie Dupey García -- The colors of the desert : ritual and aesthetic uses of pigments and colorants by the Guachichil of northern Mexico / Olivia Kindl -- Part II. …”
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Madam C. J. Walker's gospel of giving : Black women's philanthropy during Jim Crow / by Freeman, Tyrone McKinley, 1973-

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Making the Body Beautiful A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery / by Gilman, Sander L.

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Women in Industrial Research. by Tobies, Renate

Table of Contents: “…Part ii: the electrical engineering industry4 lillian gilbreth and irene witte -- women of efficiency; 5 female scientists at german electrical engineering corporations and their patronage relationships; 6 from the german electrical engineering industry to the united states: the case of cecilie froehlich; part iii: the chemical, cosmetics, and nuclear industries; 7 women in the chemical industry in the first half of the 20th century; 8 creating a niche for women in the cosmetics industry; 9 dora i. leipunskaya and the contributions of women to the nuclear industry.…”
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Madam C.J. Walker and her beauty empire / by McAneney, Caitie

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Making war, making women : femininity and duty on the American home front, 1941-1945 / by McEuen, Melissa A., 1961-

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Making war, making women : femininity and duty on the American home front, 1941-1945 / by McEuen, Melissa A., 1961-

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Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / by Roberts, Blain

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The Trotula : an English translation of the medieval compendium of women's medicine /

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Framed : the new woman criminal in British culture at the Fin de Siècle / by Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-

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Essays in Global Color History : Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum /

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Constitutionalism and dictatorship : Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 constitution / by Barros, Robert, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Shadowy Boundary between Force and Law: The Judiciary, Repression, and the Cosmetic Limitation of Emergency Powers --…”
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