In this lecture, cultural historian Kathy Peiss will reveal how book and document collecting became part of the new apparatus of intelligence and national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania, and author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe. Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman.Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europeįriends of the Libraries speaker series, Wednesday, May 27, 4:00 p.m.
Walker-in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women-Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?
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