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Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty

By (author) Margarette Lincoln

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A colourful account of womenâ€™s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to todayâ€™s viral trends Â Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black catâ€™s tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. Beautification and the pursuit of health may seem all-consuming today, but their history is long and fantastically varied. Â Ranging across the last four hundred years, Margarette Lincoln examines womenâ€™s health and beauty in fascinating detail. Through first-hand accounts and reports of physicians, quacks, and advertising, Lincoln captures womenâ€™s lived experience of consuming beauty products, and the excitementâ€”and traumaâ€”of adopting the latest fashion trends. Â Considering everything from body sculpture, diet, and exercise to skin, teeth, and hair, Perfection is a vibrant account of womenâ€™s body-fashioningâ€”and shows how intimately these practices are related to community and identity throughout history.

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