Best Books on Beauty Culture

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Natural Beauty
Natural Beauty 3.80 avg rating — 21,431 ratings
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Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity 3.57 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts 3.69 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women 4.12 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art 4.37 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
by: Elise Hu
4.06 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
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Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do about It
Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do about It 4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,659 ratings
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Terrible and Toxic Makeup
Terrible and Toxic Makeup 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker 3.98 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
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As the Pig Turns (Agatha Raisin, #22)
As the Pig Turns (Agatha Raisin, #22) 3.68 avg rating — 9,333 ratings
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died 4.44 avg rating — 1,350,339 ratings
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Brutal Body Binding and Modification
Brutal Body Binding and Modification 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community
The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community 4.35 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1)
The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 43,233 ratings
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Horrendous Hair Care
Horrendous Hair Care really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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youthjuice
youthjuice 3.11 avg rating — 5,169 ratings
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Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23)
Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23) 3.67 avg rating — 8,655 ratings
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Scary Skin Care
Scary Skin Care really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion 4.03 avg rating — 76,748 ratings
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The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art 3.86 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Deadly Diets
Deadly Diets 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
23.
Butts: A Backstory
Butts: A Backstory 3.73 avg rating — 9,365 ratings
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The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation
The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation 3.51 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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Baffling Bathing Customs
Baffling Bathing Customs 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans 3.75 avg rating — 2,467 ratings
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Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome
Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Piglet
Piglet 3.40 avg rating — 38,377 ratings
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“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People 4.32 avg rating — 11,231 ratings
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Sluts and Whores
Sluts and Whores 4.38 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice 3.60 avg rating — 98,741 ratings
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat 4.40 avg rating — 16,827 ratings
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business 3.99 avg rating — 3,742 ratings
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language 4.05 avg rating — 12,271 ratings
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My Body
My Body 3.99 avg rating — 80,822 ratings
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love 4.36 avg rating — 27,092 ratings
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Moan: Anonymous Essays on Female Orgasm
Moan: Anonymous Essays on Female Orgasm 3.86 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women 4.20 avg rating — 5,685 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,954 ratings
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About, #1)
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 18,192 ratings
41.
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 102,309 ratings
42.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 4.43 avg rating — 22,350 ratings
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She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy 3.43 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire
Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire 3.84 avg rating — 2,529 ratings
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90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality 4.03 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 4.07 avg rating — 11,169 ratings
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Paris: The Memoir
Paris: The Memoir 4.21 avg rating — 83,457 ratings
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture 3.67 avg rating — 16,139 ratings
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Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out 4.05 avg rating — 4,547 ratings
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 3.71 avg rating — 19,595 ratings
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself 3.71 avg rating — 18,729 ratings
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Girlhood
Girlhood 4.21 avg rating — 12,506 ratings
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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative 4.22 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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Annie Bot
Annie Bot 3.84 avg rating — 57,751 ratings
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language 4.24 avg rating — 25,824 ratings
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Anna O
Anna O 3.43 avg rating — 27,111 ratings
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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story 3.48 avg rating — 11,358 ratings
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The Woman in Me
The Woman in Me 3.83 avg rating — 548,125 ratings
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution 4.27 avg rating — 13,412 ratings
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Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference
Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference 3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Rewards
Rewards 2.83 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon
Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon 3.73 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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She's Always Hungry
She's Always Hungry 3.77 avg rating — 11,660 ratings
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There Is Room for All of You Here
There Is Room for All of You Here 3.74 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Such a Bad Influence
Such a Bad Influence 3.38 avg rating — 14,589 ratings
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women 4.14 avg rating — 6,270 ratings