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How to be a Renaissance Woman - Jill Burke

Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics This is the story of the Renaissance, but not as you know it. Discover overlooked and silenced women from this extraordinary moment in history and how they forged opportunities for creativity, community and resistance. From the bedchamber to the court, they give us an intimate window into what life was really like - and hold a mirror up to our contemporary obsession with how we look.

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