Annelie Ramsbrock

The Science of Beauty

Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930

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What did the cosmetics practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war? What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They were all part of a conversation about the cosmetic modification of bodies, a debate shaped by scientific knowledge and normative social models. Conceived as a cultural history, this book examines the history of artificially created beauty in Germany from the late Enlightenment to the early days of National Socialist rule.

Jahr
2015
Ort
London
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Seiten
277
ISBN
9781137489807