The Last Taboo : Women and Body Hair

Edited by Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on 'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' women. The last taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about. Using a wide range of thinking from gender theory, queer theory, critical and literary theory, history, art history, anthropology and psychology, the contributors argue that in fact body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It is sure to provide many academic researchers with a completely fresh perspective on all of the fields mentioned above.

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  • 1. The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism - Karin 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 a barbe !': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's 'Les mamelles de Tiresias' - Stephen Thomson 6. 'That wonderful phanomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition - Carolyn D. Williams 7. 'Fur' or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman - Jacqueline Lazu 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

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書名 The Last Taboo : Women and Body Hair
著作者等 Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin
書名別名 Women and Body Hair
出版元 Manchester University Press
刊行年月 2010.10.01
ページ数 256p
大きさ H234 x W156
ISBN 9780719083235
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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