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Hair, Gender and Looking
No full textThis chapter explores head and body hair as a constant (and historically consistent) means of spectacular gender identification. However, rather than focussing on what is looked at and looked for, it is the power of looking that is under scrutiny here. This chapter analyses the presentational and representational symbolic potential of the sight of human hair or its visible absence and its pivotal role in the articulation of gendered looking
‘Self and Society’
No full textThis chapter looks at self and identity in contemporary hair styling and culture
Hair and Fashioned Femininity in Two Nineteenth-Century Novels
No full textThis chapter explores the representation of hair in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders (1887). I explore the meaning of hair as a fashioned and literary practice and connect details of the primary texts to hair dressing practices and also to beauty journalism
The Big Shave: Fashions In Modern Male Facial Hair
No full textThe everyday repetition of the shaving ritual makes it an important site for the cultural production of masculinity. Examining the rhetoric deployed to promote men’s shaving products makes visible different modes of masculinity, such as traditional and modern, as well as the discourses surrounding face hair, hygiene and imagined perils to the social and material body. Such an approach has implications for ‘performativity’, Butler’s (1990) theory that gender is something we do, rather than something we are [...] since it places the emphasis on the negotiation of gendered identity, therefore allowing for more nuanced accounts of power and individual agency. For example, the exploitation of a diverse range of masculinities by advertisers gives male consumers the opportunity to dwell on contradictions in performance. All the same, men’s consumer negotiations occur within a highly regulated social and symbolic framework predisposed to particular manifestations of masculinity. Indeed the cultural regulation of facial hair may be seen as an attempt to rein in the persistent materiality, or ‘nature’, of the socially-significant body
Hair and (homo)sexuality: 'up-top and down below'
No full textThis essay argues that within Western gay male culture, the care, control and management of head, face and body hair is dominated by strategies of both conformity to, and subversion of, ‘straight’ masculinity
Resounding Power of the Afro Comb
No full textThe article considers the socio-cultural relevance of the Afro Comb during the Black Power Movement, and its legacy in the 21st century. It is the first study to chart the design developments of the Afro comb through design patents. The article extended the studies on black hair culture to include tools
Hair without a head: disembodiment and the uncanny
No full textThis essay concerns itself with disembodied hair and will show via the discussion of a range of cultural and historical examples that such hair is, in Freudian terms, uncanny. It makes connections between hair’s place in memorial, ritual and magic, to emphasise its ambiguous and in some cases troubled relationship to the rest of the human body.
The essay explores the relationship between disembodied hair, the ghostly, and specific historical and cultural contexts that make the use of uncanny hair of this kind an enduring motif in the representation of the spectral and the supernatural.
Publisher's Text About the Book:
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, legs and underarms, to wigs and beards, and everything in between, 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword, Caroline Cox
Author's Biographies
1. Introduction: Thinking About Hair, Geraldine Biddle-Perry And Sarah Cheang
Part One: Histories of Hair On the Head, Face and Body
2. Fashionable Hair In The Eighteenth Century: Theatricality and Display, Louisa Cross,
3. Roots: Hair and Race, Sarah Cheang
4. Revealing and Concealing: Notes and Observations on Eroticism and Female Pubic Hair, Jack Sargeant
5. From Style to Place: The Emergence Of The Hair Salon in the Twentieth Century, Kim Smith
6. The Big Shave: Fashions In Modern Male Facial Hair, Dene October
Part Two: Hair & Identity
7. Hair And Male (Homo) Sexuality: Up Top And Down Below, Shaun Cole
8. Hair, Gender And Looking, Geraldine Biddle-Perry
9. Men's Facial Hair in Islam: A Matter of Interpretation, Faegheh Shirazi
10. Resounding Power Of The Afro Comb, Carol Tulloch
11. Concerning Blondeness: Gender, Ethnicity, Spectacle And Footballers' Waves, Pamela Church-Gibson
12. Hair, devotion and trade in India, Eiluned Edwards
Part Three: Hair in Representation: Film, Art, Fashion, Literature & Performance
13. Hairpieces: Hair, Identity and Memory in the Work of Mona Hatoum, Leila McKellar
14. Hair Without a Head: Disembodiment and The Uncanny, Janice Miller
15. Hair and Fashioned Femininity in Two Nineteenth-Century Novels, Royce Mahawatte.
16. Hair control: The Feminine 'Disciplined Head', Thom Hecht
17. Hair-'Dressing' In Desperate Housewives: Narration, Characterisation, And The Pleasures Of Reading Hair, Rachel Velody
18. Hair Styling In The Fashion Magazine: Nova In The 1970s, Alice Beard
Conclusion
19. Conclusion: Hair and Human Identity, Sarah Cheang and Geraldine Biddle-Perry
End Notes
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