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'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' Sunday Times

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 woman's body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson reveals the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body.

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.

'This is a fascinating book: funny, unexpected, forgiving, political, personal, glamorous and yes, quietly, angry. Read it for the amazing stories; stay for the self-knowledge. Or the Revolution' Louisa Young, Prospect

'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' Sunday Times

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 woman's body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson reveals the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body.

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.

'This is a fascinating book: funny, unexpected, forgiving, political, personal, glamorous and yes, quietly, angry. Read it for the amazing stories; stay for the self-knowledge. Or the Revolution' Louisa Young, Prospect

Über den Autor
Virginia Nicholson is the author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War, Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, How Was It For You? Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s as well as Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Nicholson is the granddaughter of Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf, and is the President of the Charleston Trust, and a trustee of the Strachey Trust.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349014326
ISBN-10: 0349014329
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nicholson, Virginia
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 194 x 127 x 37 mm
Von/Mit: Virginia Nicholson
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 131907623

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