Hair
eBook - ePub

Hair

An Illustrated History

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hair

An Illustrated History

About this book

Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex. Using art, film, personal diaries, newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the 1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture, remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.

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Information

Edition
1
Topic
Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction: Hair matters
  6. Chapter 1: Care for your hair
  7. Chapter 2: From servant to stylist
  8. Chapter 3: The art of being hairless
  9. Chapter 4: The practice of being hairy
  10. Chapter 5: The politics of appearance
  11. Chapter 6: Social challenge: The long and the short of it
  12. Conclusion: Histories and hair stories
  13. Endnotes
  14. List of illustrations
  15. Abbreviations
  16. Bibliography of works cited
  17. Index
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. eCopyright