Eileen G’Sell is Teaching Professor of College Writing at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. She is also the film critic for The Hopkins Review, an award-winning literary and culture magazine published by Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Baffler, Jacobin, Los Angeles Review of Books, Belt Magazine, Current Affairs, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. In 2023, she received the Rabkin prize in arts journalism.

Lipstick is a delightful short read that weaves together autobiography, testimony, history, and feminist analysis to celebrate the artificiality of women as a category, subject, and object....G'Sell's history of lipstick's power of reinvention, alongside her account of her own personal reinventions with lipstick's help, is welcome and edifying.

• Introduction1. Painted Ladies and Tainted MenLipstick Story #1: Margaret2. Painted Ladies and Painted MenSidebar #1: The Pesky Endurance of Public High School Lipstick BansLipstick Story #2: Maurice3. Lipstick Feminism and Sticky PleasuresSidebar #2: The Myth of the Red-Lipped SuffragetteLipstick Story #3: Shaela4. Whitewashed Beauty, Appropriation, and Lipstick LegaciesSidebar #3: Four Decades of Lipstick Lyrics and Music VideosLipstick Story #4: Dorothea5. A Femme-Friendlier Future?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Eileen G’Sell is Teaching Professor of College Writing at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. She is also the film critic for The Hopkins Review, an award-winning literary and culture magazine published by Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Baffler, Jacobin, Los Angeles Review of Books, Belt Magazine, Current Affairs, Film Quarterly, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. In 2023, she received the Rabkin prize in arts journalism.

Lipstick is a delightful short read that weaves together autobiography, testimony, history, and feminist analysis to celebrate the artificiality of women as a category, subject, and object....G'Sell's history of lipstick's power of reinvention, alongside her account of her own personal reinventions with lipstick's help, is welcome and edifying.

• Introduction1. Painted Ladies and Tainted MenLipstick Story #1: Margaret2. Painted Ladies and Painted MenSidebar #1: The Pesky Endurance of Public High School Lipstick BansLipstick Story #2: Maurice3. Lipstick Feminism and Sticky PleasuresSidebar #2: The Myth of the Red-Lipped SuffragetteLipstick Story #3: Shaela4. Whitewashed Beauty, Appropriation, and Lipstick LegaciesSidebar #3: Four Decades of Lipstick Lyrics and Music VideosLipstick Story #4: Dorothea5. A Femme-Friendlier Future?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex