The last taboo women and body hair
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 ap...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
2006.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798334606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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