The last taboo : women and body hair /
The last taboo : women and body hair /
edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.
- Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; (c)2006. New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, (c)2006.
- 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations
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Includes bibliographies and index.
The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius and modernity / A history of pubic hair, or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's After theory / Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / 'La justice, c'est la femme á barbe!': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's Le Mamelles de Tirésias / 'That wonderful phaenomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition / Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman / Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Women with beards in early modern Spain / On Frida Kahlo's mustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein -- Daniela Caselli -- Louise Tandeur -- Alice Macdonald -- Stephen Thomson -- Carolyn D. Williams -- Jacqueline Lazú -- Laura Scuriatti -- Sue Walsh -- Sherry Velasco -- Neil Cocks.
'The Last Taboo' argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It asks how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781847794444 9781781702567
GBA685835 bnb
013572882 Uk 018370888 Uk
Body image in women.
Hair--Social aspects.
Taboo.
Women.
Body Image
Hair
Taboo
Women
Electronic Books.
BF697 / .L378 2006
Includes bibliographies and index.
The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius and modernity / A history of pubic hair, or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's After theory / Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / 'La justice, c'est la femme á barbe!': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's Le Mamelles de Tirésias / 'That wonderful phaenomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition / Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman / Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Women with beards in early modern Spain / On Frida Kahlo's mustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein -- Daniela Caselli -- Louise Tandeur -- Alice Macdonald -- Stephen Thomson -- Carolyn D. Williams -- Jacqueline Lazú -- Laura Scuriatti -- Sue Walsh -- Sherry Velasco -- Neil Cocks.
'The Last Taboo' argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It asks how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781847794444 9781781702567
GBA685835 bnb
013572882 Uk 018370888 Uk
Body image in women.
Hair--Social aspects.
Taboo.
Women.
Body Image
Hair
Taboo
Women
Electronic Books.
BF697 / .L378 2006