Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
"[Roberts] provides a well-researched and engaging account of beauty, both as a weighty prescription and a tool used by women to widen their spaces of living despite white dominance and patriarchy."--Women's Review of Books"Roberts's compelling narrative challenges historians to integrate the pursuit of beauty in their examinations of race and politics in the modern South."--The Southern Register"Roberts has chosen to look at many of the issues of the 20th century through the intimate world of women's beauty regimens and the public world of beauty pageants."--American Press"The good, the bad and the lovely."--Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal"Roberts uncovers the toils and economic effects of feminine beauty in the South during the 1950s and '60s."--EbonyA Notable African-American Title--Publishers Weekly