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Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism Paperback - 2021

by Daphne B; Alex Manley (Translator)


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A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson's Bluets


As Daphn B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts Sephora's website, she's increasingly troubled by the ways in which this obsession contradicts her anti-capitalist and intersectional feminist politics. In this poetic treatise, she rejects the false binaries of traditional beauty standards and delves into the celebrities and influencers, from Kylie to Grimes, and the poets and philosophers, from Anne Boyer to Audre Lorde, who have shaped the reflection she sees in the mirror. At once confessional and essayistic, Made-Up is a meditation on the makeup that colours, that obscures, that highlights who we are and who we wish we could be.


The original French-language edition was a cult hit in Quebec. Translated by Alex Manley--like Daphn, a Montreal poet and essayist--the book's English-language text crackles with life, retaining the flair and verve of the original, and ensuring that a book on beauty is no less beautiful than its subject matter.



"The most radical book of 2020 talks about makeup. Radical in the intransigence with which Daphne B hunts down the parts of her imagination that capitalism has phagocytized. Radical also in its rejection of false binaries (the authentic and the fake, the futile and the essential) through the lens of which such a subject is generally considered. With the help of a heady combination of pop cultural criticism and autobiography, a poet scrutinizes her contradictions. They are also ours." --Dominic Tardif, Le Devoir


"[Made-Up] is a delight. I read it in one go. And when, out of necessity, I had to put it down, it was with regret and with the feeling that I was giving up what could save me from a catastrophe." --Laurence Pelletier, Lettres Qubcoises, five stars


"Made-Up is a radiant, shimmering blend of memoir and cultural criticism that uses beauty culture as an entry point to interrogating the ugly contradictions of late capitalism. In short, urgent chapters laced with humor and wide-ranging references, Daphn B. plumbs the depths of a rich topic that's typically dismissed as shallow. I imagine her writing it in eye pencil, using makeup to tell the story of her life, as so many women do." --Amy Berkowitz, author of Tender Points


"A companion through the thicket of late stage capitalism, a lucid and poetic mirror for anyone whose image exists on a screen." --Rachel Kauder Nalebuff


"Made-Up is anything but--committed to the grit of our current realities, Daphn B directs her piercing eye on capitalism in an intimate portrayal of what it means to love, and how to paint ourselves in the process. Alex Manley has gifted English audiences with a nuanced translation of a critical feminist text, exploring love and make-up as a transformative social tool." --Sruti Islam



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  • Title Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism
  • Author Daphne B; Alex Manley (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Coach House Books
  • Date 2021-10-19
  • ISBN 9781552454299 / 1552454290
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.3 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Beauty, Personal, Cosmetics
  • Dewey Decimal Code 844.92

About the author

Poet and literary translator, Daphne B lives and works in Montreal. She published Bluetiful in 2015 (Les ditions de l'crou), then Delete (L'Oie de Cravan) in 2017, in addition to writing in numerous magazines (Nouveau Projet, Libert, Vice, Spirale, Zinc, Estuaire, etc.). She co-founded the feminist platform Filles Missiles and is a regular contributor to the radio show Plus on est de fous, plus on lit, on Radio-Canada.


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