Hair
Subtitle: styling, culture and fashion
By: [edited by] Geraldine Biddle-Perry and Sarah Cheang.
Contributors: Biddle-Perry, Geraldine.; Cheang, Sarah.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781845207915; 9781845207922
Subjects: Hair -- Social aspects; Hairstyles -- Social aspects; Hairdressing -- Social aspects
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : thinking about hair / Geraldine Biddle-Perry And Sarah Cheang; title: Fashionable hair in the eighteenth century : theatricality and display / Louisa Cross; title: Roots : hair and race / Sarah Cheang; title: Revealing and concealing : notes and observations on eroticism and female pubic hair / Jack Sargeant; title: From style to place : the emergence of the hair salon in the twentieth century / Kim Smith; title: The big shave : fashions in modern male facial hair / Dene October; title: Hair and male (homo) sexuality : up top and down below / Shaun Cole; title: Hair, gender and looking / Geraldine Biddle-Perry; title: Men's facial hair in Islam : a matter of interpretation / Faegheh Shirazi; title: Resounding power of the afro comb / Carol Tulloch; title: Concerning blondeness : gender, ethnicity, spectacle and footballers' waves / Pamela Church-Gibson; title: Hair, devotion and trade in India / Eiluned Edwards; title: Hairpieces : hair, identity and memory in the work of Mona Hatoum / Leila McKellar; title: Hair without a head : disembodiment and the uncanny / Janice Miller; title: Hair and fashioned femininity in two nineteenth-century novels / Royce Mahawatte; title: Hair control : the feminine 'disciplined head' / Thom Hecht; title: Hair-'dressing' in desperate housewives : narration, characterisation, and the pleasures of reading hair / Rachel Velody; title: Hair styling in the fashion magazine Nova in the 1970s / Alice Beard; title: Conclusion : hair and human identity / Sarah Cheang and Geraldine Biddle-Perry.