Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Books for Boys and Girls Approved by the Brooklyn Public Library for Use in Its Children's Rooms
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The School Journal
Author: New York School Journal
Author: Second Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884.) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments
Author: Worcester Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
Children's Catalog
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Catalogue of Selected Adult and Juvenile Books
Author: Chivers bookbinding co., Brooklyn, N. Y.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Critic
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Connecticut School Document ...
Author: Connecticut. State Board of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description
Beyond Vanity
Author: Elizabeth L. BlockPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262049058
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local, national, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity, Elizabeth Block expands the nascent field of hair studies by restoring women’s hair as a cultural site of meaning in the early United States. With a special focus on the places and spaces in which the hair industry operated, Block argues that the importance of hair has been overlooked due to its ephemerality as well as its misguided association with frivolity and triviality. As Block clarifies, hairdressing was anything but frivolous. Using methods of visual and material culture studies informed by concepts of cultural geography, Block identifies multiple substantive categories of place and space within which hair acted. These include the preparatory places of the bedroom, hair salon, and enslaved peoples’ quarters, as well as the presentation places of parties, fairs, stages, and workplaces. Here are also the untold stories of business owners, many of whom were women of color, and the creators of trendsetting styles like the pompadour and Gibson Girl bouffant. Block’s ground-breaking study examines how race and racism affected who participated in the presentation and business of hair, and according to which standards. The result of looking closely at the places and spaces of hair is a reconfiguration that allows a new understanding of the cultural power of hair in the period.