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Author Rachael Alexander

Rachael Alexander

Rachael Alexander is a PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research focuses on a comparative study of American and Canadian mass-market periodicals in the 1920s, considering them as collaborative texts, commodities, and cultural artefacts, bringing together literary perspectives with aspects of consumer culture theory. She is also the postgraduate representative for the British Association for American Studies.

Consuming Beauty: Mass-Market Magazines and Make-up in the 1920s

Rachael Alexander
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Now, it would be an overstatement to insist that the art of living is exclusively under the control of women, yet it is approximately true that the social arts—conversation, cookery, dress, manners, the more gr... Read More...
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