ISBN:
9781781702567
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178170256X
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9781847794444
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1847794440
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (xi, 218 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Last taboo
DDC:
306.4613
Schlagwort(e):
Hair Social aspects
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Body image in women
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Hair Social aspects
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Body image in women
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Hair Social aspects
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Taboo
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Women
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Body Image
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Hair
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; General
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Body image in women
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Hair ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
'The Last Taboo' argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It asks how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius and modernity / Daniela Caselli -- A history of pubic hair, or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's After theory / Louise Tandeur -- Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / Alice Macdonald -- 'La justice, c'est la femme á barbe!': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's Le Mamelles de Tirésias / Stephen Thomson -- 'That wonderful phaenomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition / Carolyn D. Williams -- Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman / Jacqueline Lazú -- Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Laura Scuriatti -- Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Sue Walsh -- Women with beards in early modern Spain / Sherry Velasco -- On Frida Kahlo's mustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism / Neil Cocks.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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