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1485782All the Ragehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/undressing-women/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/593874/5b842e1f-3dd6-44f8-9e90-681b031005e8.jpg?v=638793532271500000279328MXNLittle, Brown Book GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes -<em>Sunday Times</em></strong></p><p>At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western womans body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson, described as one of the great social historians of our time... (Amanda Foreman) and a truly brilliant researcher has produced a most remarkable social history revealing the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body.</p><p>She asks how custom, colour, class and sex fit into the picture, and shrewdly charts how the advances made by feminism collided with the changing shape of desirability. Full of surprising facts - the feminist plastic surgeon, the radioactive corset - alongside stories of the New Women who discovered freedom by bobbing their hair, those who were the early adopters of trousers, and early Black beauty entrepreneurs, this book chronicles the codes, the contradictions, the lies and the highs of beauty.</p><p>Virginia Nicholson shows how the pursuit of beauty can be oppressive but also a way of negotiating the world and that adornment can be a deep pleasure. Its complicated!</p><p><strong>This is a fascinating book: funny, unexpected, forgiving, political, personal, glamorous and yes, quietly, angry.</strong> Read it for the amazing stories; stay for the self-knowledge. Or the Revolution -Louisa Young, <em>Prospect</em></p>...1467241All the Rage279328https://www.gandhi.com.mx/undressing-women/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/593874/5b842e1f-3dd6-44f8-9e90-681b031005e8.jpg?v=638793532271500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780349014302_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_<p><strong>From the popular historian and author of <em>Among the Bohemians</em> and <em>How Was It For You?</em> comes a new offering, unbuttoning the multi-layered, hundred-year-history of womens lives through fashion and beauty from 1860-1960.</strong></p><p><strong>Virginia Nicholson is one of the great social historians of our time . . . No one else makes history this fun Amanda Foreman, author of</strong> <em><strong>Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire</strong></em></p><p><strong>Virginia Nicholson is the outstanding recorder of British lives in the twentieth century</strong> <strong>Carmen Callil, author of <em>Bad Faith</em></strong></p><p>From the suffragettes casting off corsets to Christian Dior reintroducing the hourglass; from wartime uniforms to the first Miss World bikinis; from skin lightening creams to Coco Chanels tan - the evolving world of fashion and beauty is inextricably linked to womens lived experiences. In <em>Undressing Women</em>, popular feminist historian Virginia Nicholson documents the history of womens lives in Great Britain through fashion trends, blending fascinating source material with analysis to outline a century of change in the way we see and feel about womens bodies.</p><p>New engaging source material tells the story of the close relationship between feminism and femininity, begging the question: Can we be both equal and beautiful?</p>...(*_*)9780349014302_<p><strong>No one else makes history this fun AMANDA FOREMAN</strong></p><p><strong>All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes SARAH DITUM, <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em></strong></p><p><strong>Wonderfully engaging <em>HARPERS BAZAAR</em></strong></p><p>At the heart of this history is the female body.</p><p>The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western womans body shape than at any other period.</p><p>In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson, described as one of the great social historians of our time... (Amanda Foreman) takes us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body.</p><p><em>The Power</em></p><p>Who determines which shape is currently all the rage? Looking at how custom, colour, class and sex fit into the picture, this book also charts how the advances made by feminism collided with the changing shape of desirability.</p><p><em>The Pain</em></p><p>Here is Gladys, who had botched surgery on her nose; Dorothy, whose skin colour lost her an Oscar; Beccy who took slimming pills and died; and - unbelievably - the radioactive corset.</p><p><em>The Pleasure</em></p><p>Here are the New Women who discovered freedom by bobbing their hair; the boyish, athletic Health and Beauty ladies in black knickers; and starlets in bohemian beachwear. Among the first to experience true womens liberation were the early adopters of trousers.</p><p>Encompassing two world wars and a revolution in womens rights, <em>All the Rage</em> tells the story of western female beauty from 1860 to 1960, chronicling its codes, its contradictions, its lies, its highs - and its underlying power struggle.</p>...(*_*)9780349014302_<p><strong>Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes -<em>Sunday Times</em></strong></p><p>At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western womans body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson, described as one of the great social historians of our time... (Amanda Foreman) and a truly brilliant researcher has produced a most remarkable social history revealing the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body.</p><p>She asks how custom, colour, class and sex fit into the picture, and shrewdly charts how the advances made by feminism collided with the changing shape of desirability. Full of surprising facts - the feminist plastic surgeon, the radioactive corset - alongside stories of the New Women who discovered freedom by bobbing their hair, those who were the early adopters of trousers, and early Black beauty entrepreneurs, this book chronicles the codes, the contradictions, the lies and the highs of beauty.</p><p>Virginia Nicholson shows how the pursuit of beauty can be oppressive but also a way of negotiating the world and that adornment can be a deep pleasure. Its complicated!</p><p><strong>This is a fascinating book: funny, unexpected, forgiving, political, personal, glamorous and yes, quietly, angry.</strong> Read it for the amazing stories; stay for the self-knowledge. Or the Revolution -Louisa Young, <em>Prospect</em></p>...9780349014302_Little, Brown Book Grouplibro_electonico_927db1a0-c40a-3160-977c-d0fe0c8aa268_9780349014302;9780349014302_9780349014302Virginia NicholsonInglésMéxico2024-04-11T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/hachetteuk-epub-2a29e202-fe9e-4092-9d55-1c7300268b38.epub2024-04-11T00:00:00+00:00Little, Brown Book Group