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Beauty Culture - history

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    • Ephemera

    Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.

    Lowther, Stephen, 1955- | Date: [1999]
    • Books

    Hair : its power and meaning in Asian cultures / edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller ; foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere.

    | Date: [1998], ©1998
    • Books

    Venus envy : a history of cosmetic surgery / Elizabeth Haiken.

    Haiken, Elizabeth. | Date: 1997
    • Books

    How to be a Renaissance woman : the untold history of beauty & female creativity / Jill Burke.

    Burke, Jill, 1971- | Date: 2023
    • Student dissertations

    White is beautiful? : anthropological and medical writings on female beauty, sexual selection and female health from 1800 to the period of the Darwinian debates / Elise J. Taylor.

    Taylor, Elise J. | Date: 1998
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