Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism - Softcover

Linda M. Scott has spent years researching media and women's issues. She is associate professor in art and design, communications, and women's studies at University of Illinois and research associate professor, Institute of Communications Research.

“Though it is pro-primping, this book might make you put down the highlighting kit and grab a highlighter, becuase it's so packed with facts and controversy. But some of its content-- like an old graphic that shows Ms. Steinem as quite the style icon herself-- is just plain (not plain-Jane) fun, much like fashion itself.” ―Paula Wehmeyer, BUST

“Thanks to Fresh Lipstick feminism will be fashionable. For those who shun Madison Avenue as well as those who indulge their inner consumer, Linda Scott uses historical anecdotes and strong opinions to make the case for feminism to more honestly approach beauty and fashion.” ―Amy Richards, co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism

“This is a brilliant work that establishes Linda Scott as the leading academic commentator in the country on women, fashion, and advertising and our most perceptive thinker on the cultural understanding of advertising.” ―Michael Schudson, author of The Good Citizen, Watergate in American Memory, and Professor of Sociology and Communications, UC-San Diego

“Wow! Linda Scott has written a fresh, provocative and fun look at feminism and fashion. For too long leading feminists have told women that everything from high heels to lipstick is oppressive. Linda Scott shows us how the most oppressive voice is the feminists themselves. With exemplary research she documents the puritanical and classist motives of the women's movement in their judgments of fashion, and arrives at the conclusion women have been waiting for: you can be feminine and a feminist.” ―Rene Denfeld, journalist and author of The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order

“Every once in a while a book appears that separates smoke from fire. This is one of those books. Fashion and feminism have endlessly sparked polemics, but how fair and accurate were they? On every page Linda Scott shows who the smoke blowers were. Then she lights a fire of her own that will burn for generations.” ―James B. Twitchell, author of Branded Nation, Living It Up: America's Love Affair with Luxury, and Adcult