a few books I have an interest in

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. 1981. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. 1990. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Chapkis, Wendy. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance. Boston: South End Press, 1986. 

DeBeauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. 1952. Trans. and Ed. H.M. Parshley. New York: Vantage Books, 1989. 

Foucault, Michael. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. 1978. NewYork: Vantage Books, 1990.

Freedman, Rita. Beauty Bound. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1986. 

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.

Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

Schneir, Miriam, ed. Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. New York: Vantage Books, 1992.

Tseëlon, Efrat. The Masque of Feminity: The Presentation of Women in Everyday Life. Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 

Zeglin Brand, Peg. Beauty Matters. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. (need to find and purchase).