Hair : styling, culture and fashion
"Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness, and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories, histories, performances and rituals." "From heads and bodies, to wigs and beards, the presentation, manipulation and daily experience of human hair plays a central and dynamic role within fashion, self-expression and the creation of social identity. The book's diverse range of cross-cultural essays encompasses the study of hair in fashion, film, art, history, literature, performance and consumer culture." "Offering an accessible mix of visual analysis, cultural commentary and critical theory, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion will appeal to all those interested in the presentation and analysis of cultural identity and the body."--Jacket
xvii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781845207915, 9781845207922, 1845207912, 1845207920
232131140
Introduction : thinking about hair / Geraldine Biddle-Perry And Sarah Cheang
Fashionable hair in the eighteenth century : theatricality and display / Louisa Cross
Roots : hair and race / Sarah Cheang
Revealing and concealing : notes and observations on eroticism and female pubic hair / Jack Sargeant
From style to place : the emergence of the hair salon in the twentieth century / Kim Smith
The big shave : fashions in modern male facial hair / Dene October
Hair and male (homo) sexuality : up top and down below / Shaun Cole
Hair, gender and looking / Geraldine Biddle-Perry
Men's facial hair in Islam : a matter of interpretation / Faegheh Shirazi
Resounding power of the afro comb / Carol Tulloch
Concerning blondeness : gender, ethnicity, spectacle and footballers' waves / Pamela Church-Gibson
Hair, devotion and trade in India / Eiluned Edwards
Hairpieces : hair, identity and memory in the work of Mona Hatoum / Leila McKellar
Hair without a head : disembodiment and the uncanny / Janice Miller
Hair and fashioned femininity in two nineteenth-century novels / Royce Mahawatte
Hair control : the feminine 'disciplined head' / Thom Hecht
Hair-'dressing' in desperate housewives : narration, characterisation, and the pleasures of reading hair / Rachel Velody
Hair styling in the fashion magazine Nova in the 1970s / Alice Beard
Conclusion : hair and human identity / Sarah Cheang and Geraldine Biddle-Perry