Unshaved : resistance and revolution in women's body hair politics / Breanne Fahs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fahs, Breanne, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body hair--Social aspects.

Body hair.

Hair--Removal--Social aspects.

Hair.

Beauty, Personal--Social aspects.

Beauty, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

Contents:

Introduction: revolting bodies or bodies in revolt?

Part one. Revolting bodies

Hairy subjects: imagining versus experiencing body hair rebellion

Body hair battlegrounds: the consequences, reverberations, and promises of women growing their leg, pubic, and underarm hair

Part two. Art and activism

Hairy, not so scary: situating body hair zines and drawings as activism

Expanding the body hair imaginary: photography as social intervention

China's armpit hair contest: body hair resistance as global contagion

Part three. Body hair rebels

Growing a thicker skin: emotional qualities of body hair with women who openly defy body hair norms

"The only opinion that matters is my own": the social regulation of women's body hair

"In the revolution, we will all be hairy": smashing norms, reclaiming feminism, and redrawing the politics of body hair

Epilogue: they are going to be mad at us.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Fahs, Breanne. Unshaved

ISBN:

9780295750293

0295750294

Publisher Number:

40031216717

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.