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AnitaRoddick.com
www.anitaroddick.com/aboutanita.php?PHPSESSID=4931d96cf02a9e30e8117e3d062ef8db
Roddick's own version of her life and how she founded the Body Shop.
Avon
www.avoncompany.com/about/history.html
A timeline of Avon's history, on the company's official website.
Brief History of Beauty and Hygiene Products
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/ adaccess/cosmetics-history.html
Article that looks at the alteration of appearance through the use of cosmetics, from products used in ancient Egypt through to the boom of the beauty industry in 20th-century America.
Can You Live Without … Make-up
www.channel4.com/life/microsites/ C/canyoulive/make1.html
A Channel 4 website that looks at the role that make-up plays in women's lives, with an online quiz and a 'Did You Know?' section.
The Max Factor Beauty Museum
www.seeing-stars.com/Museums/MaxFactor.shtml
Description of the museum (now part of the Hollywood History Museum) and some information on the man himself and the stars with whom he worked.
Miss World 1970: Feminists and Flour Bombs
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/ F/flourbombs/index.html
A Channel 4 website that examines the lives of five women who protested at the 1970 Miss World competition, with background information on the contest and on the women's liberation movement.
Beauty and Business, edited by Philip Scranton (Routledge, 2001) £12.99
Historians explore how our ideas of attractiveness are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors, and illuminate the ways in which beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.
The Beauty Myth: How images of beauty are used against women by Naomi Wolf (Vintage, 1991) £7.99
A controversial examination of female beauty and the industry surrounding it.
Beauty: The 20th century by Jacqueline Demornex (Universe Publishing, 2001) £20
A history of beauty encompassing art, cosmetics, magazines, perfumes and the story of the 20th century's unbridled search for novelty.
Cosmetics, Fashions and the Exploitation of Women by Joseph Hansen and Evelyn Reed (Pathfinder Press, 1986) £26
Radical analysis of the relationship between the marketing of cosmetics and fashions and the exploitation of women.
Decades of Beauty by Kate Mulvey and Melissa Richards (Hamlyn, 2000) £18.99
Charts the history of female beauty decade by decade from the end of the Victorian era to the present day, highlighting the major changes that have affected the female image.
Elizabeth Arden: Beauty empire builder by Nancy Shuker (Blackbirch Press, 2001) US edition only; available through online bookshops.
Biography of the woman who stood at the helm of the luxury beauty industry.
Hope in a Jar: The making of American beauty culture by Kathy Peiss (Owl Books, 1999) US edition only; available through online bookshops.
A history of American beauty and a window into more than 100 years of American women's history.
The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920 by Aileen S Kraditor (W W Norton, 1980) £8.99
Comments on the development of feminism, showing the differences in the aims of the original suffragists and the younger activists of the 20th century.
Lift: Wanting, fearing, and having a face-lift by Joan Kron (Penguin, 2000) US edition only; available through online bookshops.
Everything you wanted to know about plastic surgery, with historical background and information on choosing a surgeon, having the operation and recovering.
Lipstick by Jessica Pallington (Simon & Schuster, 2000) £6.99
Provides practical tips on how to buy and apply lipstick, what your lipstick shape says about you, what exactly it is made of, how to make your own, how companies name lipsticks, and other tricks of the trade.
Madame: An intimate biography of Helena Rubinstein by Patrick O'Higgins Currently out of print but available through online bookshops.
An exposé of the formidable Madame Rubinstein.
Max Factor's Hollywood: Movies, make-up, glamour by Fred Basten (Grantham Books, 1999) £15.99
Biography of Max Factor with an account of changing make-up fashions.
The Quest for Human Beauty: An illustrated history by Julian Robinson (W W Norton, 1998) £29.95
A compendium of the disparate notions of human beauty, which also argues that the human desire for beautification is so universal that it appears to be an in-born trait.
Read My Lips: A cultural history of lipstick by Meg Cohen Ragas and Karen Kozlowski (Chronicle Books, 1998) £14.95
An account of lipstick's many traces.
The Science of Cosmetics by John V Simmons, (Macmillan, 1995) £9.95
Comprehensive guide to cosmetic science, revised and updated to embrace recent developments and legislation in the cosmetic and toiletries industry.
Survival of the Prettiest: The science of beauty by Nancy Etcoff (Abacus, 2000) £8.99
What is beauty? Why are some people considered more beautiful than others? Written by a psychologist who has researched the perception of human faces, this offers a comprehensive guide to a complex and contentious subject.
Vintage Face: Period looks from the 20s 30s 40s & 50s by Angela Bjork and Daniela Turudich (Gazelle, 2001) £11.50
Detailed look at techniques, styles and colours from the 1920s to the 1950s - an excellent reference book.
What is Beauty? by Dorothy Schefer (Thames & Hudson, 1997) £12.95
An exploration of the changing definitions and images of beauty from some of the most influential image-makers of our time.
Where the Girls Are: Growing up female with the mass media by Susan J Douglas (Times Books, 1998) £15
An entertaining but serious book about women and popular culture, with some interesting examples of the role of cosmetics.
Women, Suffrage and Politics by Sylvia Pankhurst (Adam Matthew Publications, 1991) £20
Sylvia Pankhurst was - with her mother Emmeline and her sister Christabel - at the forefront of the British suffragette movement, although with far more of a socialist conscience. This, her first book, is a history of that movement.
20th Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye (Thames & Hudson, 1999) £8.95
Comprehensive survey that explores all the significant developments in fashion in a century that witnessed a growing pre-occupation with personal appearance and style.
Produced to accompany Because You're Worth It: 100 years of make-up, a Yorkshire Television production, first screened on Channel 4 in February 2002.
Writer: Caragh McKay
Editor: Kate Norrish
Project manager: Claire Beadle
Editorial consultant: Nancy Duin
Design: Ian Hallworth
Resources: Nicole Carman
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