This volume aims to advance our understanding of beauty's role in modern consumer societies by bringing together fresh scholarship that addresses a common set of questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including especially history, but also black studies, women's studies, German studies, sociology, and anthropology.

Christina Burr, Department Of History, University Of Windsor, UK Jennifer V. Evans, Department Of History, Carleton University, Canada Mila Ganeva, Department Of German, Russian And East Asian Languages, Miami University, USA Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, USA Karin Klenke, Department Of Social And Cultural Anthropology, Georg August University Of Göttingen, Germany Sara Lenehan, Oxford University, UK Michael R. Müller, Institute For Art And Material Culture, Dortmund University Of Technology, Germany Uta G. Poiger, History Department, Northeastern University, USA Véronique Pouillard, Department Of History, Conservation And Archeology (Iakh), University Of Oslo, Norway Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye, Department Of History, Justus Liebig University Of Giessen, Germany Anne Sonnemoser, Institute For Advanced Study In The Humanities (Kwi), Essen, Germany Althea Tait, Department Of Women's Studies, Old Dominion University, USA Ulrike Thoms, Institute For The History Of Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Kerry Wallach, Department Of German, Gettysburg College, USA