Natalia Ilyin

Blonde Like Me

The Roots of the Blonde Myth in Our Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

In this irreverant, unsparing and witty look at our cultural obsession with blonde, Natalia Ilyin shows us that our apparently modern fixation has truly primeval roots. Highlighting cultural criticism with personal experience, she cites ancient myths, Hollywood iconography and the daily assault of advertising to reveal why the allure of being a blonde has crossed the boundaries of ethnicity, economics and age. When a woman decides to go blonde, or add some highlights, she is deciding to stand for something, but what? In answer, Ilyin traces the power of blonde back to its primeval goddess origins: the sun blonde, the moon blonde and the innocent blonde. She offers shrew and often hilarious explanations of how they evolved into The Apollo Blonde, The Trophy Blonde and the Ironic Blonde. With a sharp wit and probing intelligence, Ilyin shows us that blonde is a hair colour, but a blonde is a symbol.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780684852140
• ISBN-10: 0684852144
• Artikelnr.: 22078287

Autorenporträt

Natalia Ilyin has taught courses in American mythic images at Cooper Union and Yale University. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
The Drugstore Goddess
In which we are seized by a longing for peroxide, and get locked in the
dress-up box.
Innocent Blonde
In which we meet The Algerian, wander about in flowery fields, and find our
first blonde.
Oh, That Strawberry Roan
In which we are introduced to a blonde horse who leads us to some early
conclusions.
The Semi-Dior Pivot
In which we review our sensitive adolescence and apply gaffer's tape, while
Persephone picks a flower.
I, Defiler
In which we get terribly confused and are thrown out of a very small room.
Sun Blonde
In which we meet Rita and find ourselves in a tight spot at a banquet.
Farrah and the Song Girls
In which we remember California, and touch upon the significance of pigs.
Apollo in Drag
In which we are compared to Miss Rhode Island, wonder about tape measures,
and meet a new Sun Blonde.
The Armpiece Years
In which we descend a crag and give advice.
The Dark Side of Blonde
In which people jump out of darkrooms, a colorist gets shot, and we think
about light and dark.
Moon Blonde
In which we wish for Mace.
Ironic Blonde
In which we are invited to a party and a famous person disagrees with us.
Jung for Home Use
In which the blondes return to the familial table.
Old Blonde
In which we ponder crones.
Fair Fame and the Goat Lady
In which we begin our tale just as the book is ending.