TY - JOUR
AU - Renne, Elisha P.
AB - Book Reviews 353 consumer insistence on governmental protection from injurious products. Yet although coal tar dyes were hereafter restricted in eye make-up, the author notes that they still pose a danger to Americans because this toxic substance was never prohibited in hair dyes; however this is only mentioned parenthetically, as a brief note that hair dyes were ‘exempted from the 1938 law’ (p. 126). Kay should explain this exemption, and had she delved into the details of this exclusion granted to manufacturers of hair dyes a clearer picture of the nature of federal regulations and those interests they are actually engineered to serve would have been revealed. In fact, the National Association of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists was instrumental in effecting this particular exception. In the commemorative written for its fiftieth anniversary, NHCA’s Golden Years (1970, pp. 20–1), the Association explicitly touted its effectiveness at emasculating the Cope- land Bill: ‘All of the amendments adopted in 1938 were substantially word for word the language offered in our presentation’. Kay’s account never indicates such profound involvement by business interests in the formulation of federal legislation. Had Kay paid more attention to the entrepreneurial dimensions of regulation, the book might have discovered 
TI - Menstruation: A Cultural History
JO - Social History of Medicine
DO - 10.1093/shm/hkl020
DA - 2006-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/menstruation-a-cultural-history-0JPTCuymx0
SP - 353
EP - 354
VL - 19
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -