Plucked : a history of hair removal /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Biopolitics.
Subjects:
Hair > Removal > United States > History.
Hair > Social aspects > United States > History.
Body hair > Social aspects > United States > History.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History.
Hair Removal > history
Épilation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Système pileux > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Health and Fitness.
Hair > Removal
Hair > Social aspects
Human body > Social aspects
Människokroppen > sociala aspekter > historia.
Hår > sociala aspekter > historia.
Hårborttagning > historia.
Health and Wellbeing.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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