San Antonio College Library

From bedtime fairytales and blockbuster movies to magazine advertisements and reality TV, we absorb the lesson early, being beautiful is the answer to our dreams. For pre-teens and teens, the pursuit of fitting in and measuring up feels like an essential survival strategy. Never before have so many messages offered so many unattainable ideals. With In Your Face, Shari Graydon encourages readers to look critically at the culture of beauty of both past...

Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo's salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows up one day looking for work. Despite her resistance, the two become friends, and eventually, Vimbai becomes Dumisani's landlady. He is as charming as he is deft with the scissors, and Vimbai finds that he means more and more to her. Yet, by novel's end, the pair's deepening friendship -- used or embraced by Dumisani...

The business of beauty is ubiquitous in American society. This multibillion-dollar industry stands at the intersection of culture, society, and commerce, reaching into our pocketbooks and our headlines. It affords women--and men, too--the opportunity to assert notions of desirability, race, gender, and sexuality, often as dictated by the industry itself. The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia is the first compilation to focus exclusively on this...

Examines some of the early inventions and innovations used by women in their quest for beauty including bustles and brassieres, makeup to enhance the eyes and lips, treatments for the body and hair, and ways to flatter the hips and derriere.

"Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America's most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement's signature achievements, including bringing women into the public...

Featuring the latest information and advice about official cosmetology certification exams in all 50 states, this new e-book includes: four full-length practice tests ; a 250-question refresher course with detailed answer explanations ; a 100-question online practice test in professional salon business, salon safety, science, nails, skin, physical services, chemical services, and hair design ; a personalized analysis that identifies strengths and...

In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired-and have sometimes misled-scientists attempting to understand nature. Orrell shows how the ancient Greeks constructed a concept of the world based on musical harmony; later thinkers replaced this model with a program, based on Newton's "rational mechanics,"...

Includes material on femininity (psychology).