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Beyond Vanity
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Author : Elizabeth L. Block
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-09-10
Beyond Vanity written by Elizabeth L. Block and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-10 with Design categories.
From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local, national, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity, Elizabeth Block expands the nascent field of hair studies by restoring women’s hair as a cultural site of meaning in the early United States. With a special focus on the places and spaces in which the hair industry operated, Block argues that the importance of hair has been overlooked due to its ephemerality as well as its misguided association with frivolity and triviality. As Block clarifies, hairdressing was anything but frivolous. Using methods of visual and material culture studies informed by concepts of cultural geography, Block identifies multiple substantive categories of place and space within which hair acted. These include the preparatory places of the bedroom, hair salon, and enslaved peoples’ quarters, as well as the presentation places of parties, fairs, stages, and workplaces. Here are also the untold stories of business owners, many of whom were women of color, and the creators of trendsetting styles like the pompadour and Gibson Girl bouffant. Block’s ground-breaking study examines how race and racism affected who participated in the presentation and business of hair, and according to which standards. The result of looking closely at the places and spaces of hair is a reconfiguration that allows a new understanding of the cultural power of hair in the period.
Beyond Vanity
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Author : Destiny O. Emmanuel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Beyond Vanity written by Destiny O. Emmanuel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Campus violence categories.
Beyond Vanity
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Author : Elizabeth L. Block
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Beyond Vanity written by Elizabeth L. Block and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Hair categories.
"Establishes the cultural power of hair in the 19th century through critical interpretation of the significant space and time devoted to it as an important sociocultural symbol"--
Vanity Blade
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Author : Samantha Harte
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-03-22
Vanity Blade written by Samantha Harte and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-22 with Fiction categories.
The life and loves of the riverboat queen who left a trail of broken hearts behind her on her voyage west. The orphan daughter of a saloon singer, vivacious Mary Lousie Mackenzie grows up to be a famous singer herself, the beautiful gambling queen known as Vanity Blade. Leaving her home in Mississippi, Vanity travels a wayward path to Sacramento, where she rules her own gambling boat. Gamblers and con men barter in high stakes around her, but Vanity’s heart remains back east, with her once carefree life and former love, Trance Holloway, a preacher’s son. Trying to reclaim a happiness she’d left behind long ago, Vanity returns to Mississippi to discover—and fight for—the love she thought she’d lost forever.
Beyond The Household
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Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1998
Beyond The Household written by Cynthia A. Kierner and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Women categories.
Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end--rather than the beginning--of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere--and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.
The Vanity And Mischief Of Presuming On Things Beyond Our Measure
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1774
The Vanity And Mischief Of Presuming On Things Beyond Our Measure written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1774 with categories.
Beyond Uncommon Boundaries
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Author : Sherry Marie Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Beyond Uncommon Boundaries written by Sherry Marie Gallagher and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Fiction categories.
'Beyond Uncommon Boundaries' is the second volume of richly collected imagery that invites readers into the poet, storyteller and songwriter's life's journey - her evocative thoughts and imagination leads you through different landscapes and boundaries.
Beyond Bondage
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Author : David Barry Gaspar
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Beyond Bondage written by David Barry Gaspar and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.
Beyond Posthumanism
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Author : Alexander Mathäs
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-02-03
Beyond Posthumanism written by Alexander Mathäs and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-03 with Philosophy categories.
Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.
The Outermost Rim And Beyond
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Author : Charles Van Norden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The Outermost Rim And Beyond written by Charles Van Norden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with God categories.