The last taboo (eBook, ePUB)

Women and body hair
Redaktion: Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the 'cultural' and 'natural' in western culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796752
• Artikelnr.: 42370134

Autorenporträt

Karín Lesnik-Oberstein is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading

Inhaltsangabe

1. The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism
Karín Lesnik
Oberstein 2. 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius, and modernity
Daniela Caselli 3. A history of pubic hair or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's 'After Theory'
Louise Tondeur 4. Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen
Alice Macdonald 5. 'La justice, c'est la femme à barbe !': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's 'Les mamelles de Tirésias'
Stephen Thomson 6. 'That wonderful phænomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition
Carolyn D. Williams 7. 'Fur' or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild
woman
Jacqueline Lazú 8. Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising
Laura Scuriatti 9. Bikini fur and fur bikinis
Sue Walsh 10. Women with beards in early modern Spain
Sherry Velasco 11. On Frida Kahlo's moustache: A reading of 'Self
Portrait with Cropped Hair and its criticism
Neil Cocks