Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

by Evelyn Reed, Joseph Hansen, Mary-Alice Waters

Overview

How big business plays on women's second‑class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873486590
Publisher:	Pathfinder Press
Publication date:	01/01/1986
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	181
Sales rank:	292,600
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.45(d)

Editorial Reviews

Here are seven articles and letters from the newspaper, discussions within the Socialist Workers Party, and an exchange of letters between its members taking up the issue from a materialist viewpoint.

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