Lipstick: Object Lessons - Eileen G’Sell

Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Aesthetics Beauty Design Object Lessons Philosophy Style

Written by Eileen G’Sell
Read by Deborah McBride
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 04-16-26

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.