New perspectives on the history of facial hair : framing the face / Jennifer Evans, Alun Withey, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Evans, Jennifer, 1984- editor.

Withey, Alun, editor.

Series:

Genders and sexualities in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beards--History.

Beards.

Mustaches--History.

Mustaches.

Hair--History.

Hair.

Beards--Social aspects.

Mustaches--Social aspects.

Hair--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 249 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction / Alun Withey and Jennifer Evans

Part I: (Re)building the beard? Social science, gender theory and the history of hair / Christopher Oldstone-Moore

'The very head and front of my offending': beards, portraiture and self-presentation in early modern England / Margaret Pelling

Hair, beards and the fashioning of English manhood in early modern travel texts / Eleanor Rycroft

Beardless young men? Facial hair and the construction of masculinity in nineteenth-century Spanish self-portraits / M. Victoria Alonso Cabezas

Making facial hair modern: shaving and hirsuteness in post-war Britain / Mark Anderson

A tiny cloak of privilege: facial hair and story telling / Helen Casey

Part II: Masculinity and the moustache. Combing masculine identity in the age of the moustache, 1860-1900 / Sharon Twickler

Whiskers at war: moustaches, masculinity and the military in twentieth-century Britain / Alice White

Part III: Feminine facial hair and feminine responses to facial hair. 'We'll imagine, madam, that you have a beard': beards and early female playwrights / Morwenna Carr

Shades of facial hairiness at the French court: the case of Mare-Joséphine of Savoy, Countess of Provence / Aurore Chéry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783319734965

3319734962

OCLC:

1013945630

Publisher Number:

99976972913