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The last taboo : women and body hair / / edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein



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Titolo: The last taboo : women and body hair / / edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 305.4
306.4613
Soggetto topico: Body image in women
Hair - Social aspects
Soggetto non controllato: Western culture
beautification
body hair
femininity
fetishistic pornography
hair removal
hairy women
hirsutism
natural female body
women
Altri autori: Lesnik-ObersteinKarín  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. The last taboo: women,body hair and feminism; 2. 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with'1: body hair, genius and modernity; 3. A history of pubic hair, or reviewers'responses to Terry Eagleton's After Theory; 4. Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen; 5. 'La justice, c'est la femme à barbe!':the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's LesMamelles de Tirésias; 6. 'That wonderful phænomenon':female body hair and English literary tradition; 7. Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman
8. Designers' bodies: women and 9. Bikini fur and fur bikinis; 10. Women with beards in early modern Spain; 11. On Frida Kahlo's moustache:a reading of Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair and its criticism; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on 'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' women. The last taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.
Titolo autorizzato: The last taboo  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-256-X
1-84779-444-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819598303321
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