Uncover the history of men, masc-identifying folx and their relation to beauty. How does masculinity evolve and change forms and what does this say about us? How can we mend our relationship with masculinity?

Resources:

• When Did Men Stop Wearing Makeup?

• Joanna Bourke, “The Great Male Renunciation: Men’s Dress Reform in Inter-War Britain,” Journal of Design History Vol. 9, No. 1. (Oxford University Press on behalf of Design History Society, 1996).

• Michael Zakim, Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

• Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life, (Harvard University Press, 1999), 159.

• Matt Houlbrook, “The Man with the Powder Puff in Interwar London,” The Historical Journal Vol. 50, No. 1, 2007.

• Thomas Laquer, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, (Harvard University Press, 1992).

• Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America, A Cultural History, (Oxford University Press, 2011).

• “TB’s Surprising Results,”PBS

• Franklin Johnson, “The Masculine Woman,” Christian Repository & Home Circle, (September, 1887).

• Kathy Peiss, Hope In A Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

• Sarah Gold McBride, “Power is On the Side of the Beard,” U.S. History Scene

• Sara Damiano, “The Decline of Barbers? Or, the Risks and Rewards of Quantitative Analysis,” Early Americanists, July 23, 2014

• Bob Batchelor, The 1900s (Greenwood Press, 2002), 99.

• Tangee Natural Lipstick, Vogue, (August, 1943).

• The Gospel of Germs by Nancy Tomes

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