Hair, styling, culture and fashion, Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang
Type
Label
Hair, styling, culture and fashion, Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hair
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
232131140
Responsibility statement
Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang
Review
"Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness, and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories, histories, performances and rituals." "From heads and bodies, to wigs and beards, the presentation, manipulation and daily experience of human hair plays a central and dynamic role within fashion, self-expression and the creation of social identity. The book's diverse range of cross-cultural essays encompasses the study of hair in fashion, film, art, history, literature, performance and consumer culture." "Offering an accessible mix of visual analysis, cultural commentary and critical theory, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion will appeal to all those interested in the presentation and analysis of cultural identity and the body."--Jacket
Sub title
styling, culture and fashion
Table Of Contents
Introduction : thinking about hair / Geraldine Biddle-Perry And Sarah Cheang -- Fashionable hair in the eighteenth century : theatricality and display / Louisa Cross -- Roots : hair and race / Sarah Cheang -- Revealing and concealing : notes and observations on eroticism and female pubic hair / Jack Sargeant -- From style to place : the emergence of the hair salon in the twentieth century / Kim Smith -- The big shave : fashions in modern male facial hair / Dene October -- Hair and male (homo) sexuality : up top and down below / Shaun Cole -- Hair, gender and looking / Geraldine Biddle-Perry -- Men's facial hair in Islam : a matter of interpretation / Faegheh Shirazi -- Resounding power of the afro comb / Carol Tulloch -- Concerning blondeness : gender, ethnicity, spectacle and footballers' waves / Pamela Church-Gibson -- Hair, devotion and trade in India / Eiluned Edwards -- Hairpieces : hair, identity and memory in the work of Mona Hatoum / Leila McKellar -- Hair without a head : disembodiment and the uncanny / Janice Miller -- Hair and fashioned femininity in two nineteenth-century novels / Royce Mahawatte -- Hair control : the feminine 'disciplined head' / Thom Hecht -- Hair-'dressing' in desperate housewives : narration, characterisation, and the pleasures of reading hair / Rachel Velody -- Hair styling in the fashion magazine Nova in the 1970s / Alice Beard -- Conclusion : hair and human identity / Sarah Cheang and Geraldine Biddle-Perry