Hair : styling, culture and fashion / [edited by] Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biddle-Perry, Geraldine.

Cheang, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hair--Social aspects.

Hair.

Hairstyles--Social aspects.

Hairstyles.

Hairdressing--Social aspects.

Hairdressing.

Physical Description:

xvii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781845207915

1845207912

9781845207922

1845207920

OCLC:

232131140