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Poison by Advertisement: Cosmetics and the Art of Selling Whiteness c.1880-1920

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dc.contributor.authorHammerschlag, Keren
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-14T02:25:04Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-10
dc.date.updated2023-07-09T08:15:53Z
dc.description.abstractThe late Victorian and Edwardian beauty industry produced a wealth of visual material that promoted lily-white complexions as a privileged indicator of beauty, youth, health and hygiene. This was especially the case in advertisements for British and American skin lightening, skin whitening and skin bleaching products. These advertisements used visual and linguistic devices to convince white women that the application of often-toxic products would restore blemished, tanned and freckled complexions to 'natural' whiteness. Moving from sun-starved Britain to sun-drenched Australia, skin lightening products were actively marketed to white women living in Federation Australia, revealing particular fears associated with the darkening and reddening effects of the southern sun.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research is supported by an Australian National University Futures Scheme Award.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0951-631Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/313583
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_AU
dc.rights© 2022 The Author(s)en_AU
dc.sourceSocial History of Medicineen_AU
dc.titlePoison by Advertisement: Cosmetics and the Art of Selling Whiteness c.1880-1920en_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage421en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage389en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationHammerschlag, Keren, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidHammerschlag, Keren, u1071075en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor360102 - Art historyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB35415en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume35en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1093/shm/hkab107en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://academic.oup.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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