Lipstick

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Eileen G'Sell, USA) G'Sell, Eileen (Washington University of St. Louis, Ian Bogost, Christopher Schaberg

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself. Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world’s most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-05
Mått121 x 165 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieObject Lessons
Antal sidor160
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765135587

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Eileen G’Sell is Teaching Professor of College Writing at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. She is also the film critic for The Hopkins Review, an award-winning literary and culture magazine out of Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Baffler, Jacobin, Los Angeles Review of Books, Belt Magazine, Current Affairs, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. In 2023, she received the Rabkin prize in arts journalism.

Introduction1. Painted Ladies and Tainted MenLipstick Story #1: Margaret2. Painted Ladies and Painted MenSidebar #1: The Pesky Endurance of Public High School Lipstick BansLipstick Story #2: Maurice3. Lipstick Feminism and Sticky PleasuresSidebar #2: The Myth of the Red-Lipped SuffragetteLipstick Story #3: Shaela4. Whitewashed Beauty, Appropriation, and Lipstick LegaciesSidebar #3: Four Decades of Lipstick Lyrics and Music VideosLipstick Story #4: Dorothea5. A Femme-Friendlier Future?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Brilliant, biting, and irresistibly stylish, Lipstick treats beauty as the serious subject that it is. With deep insight, lyrical precision, and humor, Eileen G'Sell examines how painted lips expose the tensions between conformity and self-expression, beauty standards and personal agency. Less a book about makeup, and more about what we make of ourselves, this is cultural criticism at its most relatable and relevant.