The last taboo : women and body hair /

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'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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
Temas:
Body image in women.
Hair > Social aspects.
Taboo.
Women.
Body Image
Hair
Taboo
Women
Image du corps chez la femme.
Tabou.
Femmes.
taboo.
women (female humans)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Body image in women
Hair > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
  • 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius and modernity / Daniela Caselli
  • A history of pubic hair, or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's After theory / Louise Tandeur
  • Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / Alice Macdonald
  • 'La justice, c'est la femme á barbe!': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's Le Mamelles de Tirésias / Stephen Thomson
  • 'That wonderful phaenomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition / Carolyn D. Williams
  • Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman / Jacqueline Lazú
  • Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Laura Scuriatti
  • Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Sue Walsh
  • Women with beards in early modern Spain / Sherry Velasco
  • On Frida Kahlo's mustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism / Neil Cocks.

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