The last taboo (eBook, ePUB)

Women and body hair
Redaktion: Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on 'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' women. The last taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.

Using a wide range of thinking from gender theory, queer theory, critical and literary theory, history, art history, anthropology and psychology, the contributors argue that in fact body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It is sure to provide many academic researchers with a completely fresh perspective on all of the fields mentioned above.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796752
• Artikelnr.: 42370134

Autorenporträt

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