Me, my hair, and I
By: edited by Elizabeth Benedict
Contributors: Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-; Golden, Marita; Lamott, Anne; Volk, Patricia; Kuczynski, Alex; Schaap, Rosie; Mukherjee, Bharati; Keller, Emma Gilbey; Trigiani, Adriana; Tannen, Deborah
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781616204112
Subjects: Hair; Hairstyles; Health and hygiene; American Women authors; Social aspects; Identity; Women
Description: In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, and celebrity. Layered into these essays you'll find surprises, insights, hilarity, and the resonance of common experience. Many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo.
Table of contents: title: The Rapunzel complex / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein; title: Hair, interrupted / Suleika Jaouad; title: My Black hair / Marita Golden; title: Sister / Anne Lamott; title: Frizzball / Patricia Volk; title: And be sure to tell your mother / Alex Kuczynski; title: Kosmic hippie hair breakdown blues / Rosie Schaap; title: Romance and ritual / Bharati Mukherjee; title: My thick hair / Emma Gilbey Keller; title: Oh capello / Adriana Trigiani; title: Why mothers and daughters tangle over hair / Deborah Tannen; title: Beautiful, beautiful / Honor Moore; title: My wild hair / Maria Hinojosa; title: Love at last / Jane Green; title: The cutoff / Deborah Feldman; title: Glory / Ru Freeman; title: Act tresses: hair as performance art / Elizabeth Searle; title: Remembering Sandra Dee / Hallie Ephron; title: Maids of the mist / Katie Hafner; title: Hair in three parts / Deborah Jiang-Stein; title: Much ado about hairdos / Siri Hustvedt; title: Two hair stories from one life / Myra Goldberg; title: Capelli lunghi / Julia Fierro; title: Heavy mettle / Deborah Hofmann; title: At last, I learn how to turn heads / Jane Smiley; title: Getting real / Anne Kreamer; title: No, I won't go gray / Elizabeth Benedict.