SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until three months after
publication.) Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the
History of Feminism series makes key archival source material
readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women's
and gender studies, women's history, and women's writing, as well
as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and
introduced by expert editors, the gathered materials are reproduced
in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts
and permitting citation to the original pagination. This new title
in the series brings together in six volumes a unique range of
Victorian and Edwardian texts on Women, Beauty, and Fashion. The
learned editor has organized the set around three principal
thematic categories ('Personal Beauty and Care', 'Beauty, Fashion,
and Health', and 'Beauty Education and Self-Management') which move
chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1910s. The materials
gathered here are representative of the body of texts written on
beauty and fashion with reference to women's (self-) perception and
(self-) definition. Combining the issues of fashion with those of
economy, education, and physical culture, the collection offers a
range of diverging views. The diversity of the gathered materials
is mirrored in their generic range and in the varied professional
background of their authors. The collection includes, but is not
limited to, religious treatises and dress reformers' pamphlets,
personal-care manuals by society ladies, advice books by (alleged)
specialists, and manufacturers' attempts at self-advertising.
Making readily available materials which are currently very
difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe
to locate and use, Women, Beauty, and Fashion is a veritable
treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile,
giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and
permitting citation to the original pagination. Each volume is also
supplemented by substantial introductions, newly written by the
editor, which contextualize the material. And with a detailed
appendix providing data on the provenance of the gathered works,
the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and
research resource.
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