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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss
Historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture and shows how women used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure to shape history.
Work! A Queer History of Modeling by Elspeth H. Brown
By outlining the paradox that queerness lies at the center of capitalist heteronormativity and telling the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, Brown offers an out of the ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
This is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed, brilliantly shattering the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating.