All the Rage
Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960
Published on 6. August 2024
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-63936-706-1 (ISBN)
Description
"A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions--and how it affects the female body."--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63936-706-1 (9781639367061)
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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.