This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the 'cultural' and 'natural' in western culture.
This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the 'cultural' and 'natural' in western culture.
Karín Lesnik-Oberstein is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading
Inhaltsangabe
1. The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism Karín Lesnik Oberstein 2. 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius, and modernity Daniela Caselli 3. A history of pubic hair or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's 'After Theory' Louise Tondeur 4. Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen Alice Macdonald 5. 'La justice, c'est la femme à barbe !': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's 'Les mamelles de Tirésias' Stephen Thomson 6. 'That wonderful phænomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition Carolyn D. Williams 7. 'Fur' or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild woman Jacqueline Lazú 8. Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising Laura Scuriatti 9. Bikini fur and fur bikinis Sue Walsh 10. Women with beards in early modern Spain Sherry Velasco 11. On Frida Kahlo's moustache: A reading of 'Self Portrait with Cropped Hair and its criticism Neil Cocks
1. The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism Karín Lesnik Oberstein 2. 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius, and modernity Daniela Caselli 3. A history of pubic hair or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's 'After Theory' Louise Tondeur 4. Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen Alice Macdonald 5. 'La justice, c'est la femme à barbe !': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's 'Les mamelles de Tirésias' Stephen Thomson 6. 'That wonderful phænomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition Carolyn D. Williams 7. 'Fur' or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild woman Jacqueline Lazú 8. Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising Laura Scuriatti 9. Bikini fur and fur bikinis Sue Walsh 10. Women with beards in early modern Spain Sherry Velasco 11. On Frida Kahlo's moustache: A reading of 'Self Portrait with Cropped Hair and its criticism Neil Cocks
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