Plucked : a history of hair removal /
"From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of tools to remove hair deemed unsightly, unnatural, or excessive. This is true especially for women and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Biopolitics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Necessary suffering
- The hairless Indian : savagery and civility before the Civil War
- "Chemicals of the toilette" : from homemade remedies to a new industrial order
- Bearded women and dog-faced men : Darwin's great denudation
- "Smooth, white, velvety skin" : x-ray salons and social mobility
- Glandular trouble : sex hormones and deviant hair growth
- Unshaven : "arm-pit feminists" and women's liberation
- "Cleaning the basement" : labor, pornography, and Brazilian waxing
- Magic bullets : Laser regulation and elective medicine
- "The next frontier" : genetic enhancement and the end of hair
- We are all plucked.