Holly Grout
Biographic Data
| ID | 1027381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holly Grout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holly |
| FAMILY NAME | Grout |
| SIGNATURE | GROUT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Desiring Whiteness
Charm Offensive
Le miracle et le mirage’
This article examines how, as a centerpiece of France’s commercial beauty culture, the early twentieth-century beauty institute provided the strategies, goods, and professional opportunities required to make French women modern. An industry dedicated to women’s self-care and instrumental in making women visible (creating a look that in turn influenced how women would be seen) in the industrial metropolis, beauty institutes, I argue, provided a un…
Sun-Young Park. Ideals of the Body
What does it mean to be modern? This deceptively simple query frames Sun-Young Park’s ambitious first book, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris. Park’s richly theorized and meticulously researched monograph cleverly interweaves urban history with the history of the body, dynamic areas of inquiry that have, in the past two decades, garnered considerable scholarly attention. Interested in the mutually …
Authorizing Fictions
This article examines how one of the most popular French celebrities of the twentieth century, Mistinguett (née Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois), used the medium of memoir to narrate a self and to produce her posterity. Located at the intersection of commerce and culture, celebrity memoir provides public figures a commodified textual stage for enacting, performing, and disseminating their brand. But to dismiss celebrity memoir as mere publicity, as s…
European Celebrity in Historical Perspective
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Between Venus and Mercury
This article examines the beauty contest as a cultural register for shifting definitions of femininity in the 1920s. It focuses on the photographic beauty competition, the “Miss“ pageant, and the film Prix de Beauté, to show how beauty contests in France and the United States engendered transnational debates about feminine beauty, identity, and visibility. It asks how, as valueladen cultural enterprises and as popular commercial entertainments, t…
Le miracle et le mirage’
This article examines how, as a centerpiece of France’s commercial beauty culture, the early twentieth-century beauty institute provided the strategies, goods, and professional opportunities required to make French women modern. An industry dedicated to women’s self-care and instrumental in making women visible (creating a look that in turn influenced how women would be seen) in the industrial metropolis, beauty institutes, I argue, provided a un…
Authorizing Fictions
This article examines how one of the most popular French celebrities of the twentieth century, Mistinguett (née Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois), used the medium of memoir to narrate a self and to produce her posterity. Located at the intersection of commerce and culture, celebrity memoir provides public figures a commodified textual stage for enacting, performing, and disseminating their brand. But to dismiss celebrity memoir as mere publicity, as s…
European Celebrity in Historical Perspective
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Between Venus and Mercury
This article examines the beauty contest as a cultural register for shifting definitions of femininity in the 1920s. It focuses on the photographic beauty competition, the “Miss“ pageant, and the film Prix de Beauté, to show how beauty contests in France and the United States engendered transnational debates about feminine beauty, identity, and visibility. It asks how, as valueladen cultural enterprises and as popular commercial entertainments, t…
Between Venus and Mercury
This article examines the beauty contest as a cultural register for shifting definitions of femininity in the 1920s. It focuses on the photographic beauty competition, the “Miss“ pageant, and the film Prix de Beauté, to show how beauty contests in France and the United States engendered transnational debates about feminine beauty, identity, and visibility. It asks how, as valueladen cultural enterprises and as popular commercial entertainments, t…
European Celebrity in Historical Perspective
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sun-Young Park. Ideals of the Body
What does it mean to be modern? This deceptively simple query frames Sun-Young Park’s ambitious first book, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris. Park’s richly theorized and meticulously researched monograph cleverly interweaves urban history with the history of the body, dynamic areas of inquiry that have, in the past two decades, garnered considerable scholarly attention. Interested in the mutually …
Authorizing Fictions
This article examines how one of the most popular French celebrities of the twentieth century, Mistinguett (née Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois), used the medium of memoir to narrate a self and to produce her posterity. Located at the intersection of commerce and culture, celebrity memoir provides public figures a commodified textual stage for enacting, performing, and disseminating their brand. But to dismiss celebrity memoir as mere publicity, as s…
Le miracle et le mirage’
This article examines how, as a centerpiece of France’s commercial beauty culture, the early twentieth-century beauty institute provided the strategies, goods, and professional opportunities required to make French women modern. An industry dedicated to women’s self-care and instrumental in making women visible (creating a look that in turn influenced how women would be seen) in the industrial metropolis, beauty institutes, I argue, provided a un…
Charm Offensive
Desiring Whiteness
Art (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Beauty (2 works) · Femininity (2 works)