American Beauty

by Lois W. Banner

Book Overview

This original and engaging work chronicles the social history of the perception of feminine beauty in America from the fashionable pallor (occasionally induced by doses of arsenic) of the antebellum... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039451923X
• ISBN13: 9780394519234
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.