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Hair : styling, culture and fashion / Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang.

Biddle-Perry, Geraldine. (Added Author). Cheang, Sarah. (Added Author).

Summary:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781845207915 (cloth)
ISBN: 9781845207922 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1845207912 (cloth)
ISBN: 1845207920 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xvii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Oxford ; Berg, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.