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Lipstick

Object Lessons

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Lipstick

By: Eileen G'Sell
Narrated by: Deborah McBride
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself.

Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world’s most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.

©2026 Eileen G'Sell (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Aesthetics Art Beauty, Grooming & Style Decorative Arts & Design Literary History & Criticism Philosophy Popular Culture Social Sciences
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