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Lipstick
About this book
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.
Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world's most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.
Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world's most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 Painted Ladies and Tainted Men
- Handwritten Story 1: Margaret, Baby Boomer
- 2 Painted Ladies and Painted Men
- Sidebar #1: The Pesky Endurance of Public High School Lipstick Bans
- Handwritten Excerpt #2: Maurice, Older Millennial
- 3 Lipstick Feminism and Sticky Pleasures
- Sidebar #2: The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette
- Handwritten Excerpt #3: Shaela, Younger Millennial
- 4 Whitewashed Beauty, Appropriation, and Lipstick Legacies
- Sidebar #3: Four Decades of Lipstick Lyrics and Music Videos
- Handwritten Excerpt #4: Dorothea, Gen Z
- 5 A Femme-Friendlier Future?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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