About this Event
Lipstick today is as messy—and fascinating—as changing attitudes towards femininity. Mining the experience of women across culture, class, and generation, this book tosses out expired ideas about beauty and power like so many tubes of melted wax.
From Max Factor to Glossier, from Marilyn to Chappell Roan, lipstick is as shape-shifting and elusive as femininity itself. Rather than a staid history of the object, Lipstick is a roving exploration of gender, sexuality, and performance—combining personal narrative with research and cultural critique. Unpacking the history of feminism's anti-lipstick sentiments, debunking long-standing fallacies, and digging into how Gen Z is using lipstick to explode gender norms, this book explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation.
Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. Her first full-length volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press. Her second book of poetry, Francofilaments, was published in 2024 by Broken Sleep Books. Her first book of nonfiction, Lipstick, joined Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series in early 2026.
JoAnna Novak is anacclaimed author, poet, and editorknown for her genre-bending work, including the memoir Contradiction Days (2023), the story collection Meaningful Work, and poetry collections like Domestirexia. A co-founder of Tammy journal, she holds a PhD from USC and MFAs from UMass-Amherst and Washington University.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
ARTBOOK @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 917 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, United States
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