On beauty … and the history of business

Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7-22

  Peiss, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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