'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the st

This advice book to women details rules of hygiene and beauty and reflects the values placed on maintaining the image of the "lady."

In this loose retelling of Howard's End, Zadie Smith considers the big questions: Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on

Debra Gimlin focuses on four sites where she conducted in-depth research--a beauty salon, aerobics classes, a plastic surgery clinic, and a social and political

One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its developmen