Description
Book SynopsisSarah Heaton is Head of English at the University of Chester, UK.
Trade ReviewA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue. * Times Literary Supplement *
An excellent contribution to this very significant period in the story of hair, this book offers specific insights from a range of disciplines and authors. The chapters manage to weave into each other to demonstrate the ways in which hair and our contemporary modes of understanding it are embedded in the fascinating period of change that is the Age of Empire. -- Donna Bevan, Southampton Solent University, UK
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Introduction: Empires of Hair and their Afterlives,
Sarah Heaton 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief,
Richard Leahy 2. Self and Society,
Jonathon Shears 3. Fashion and Adornment,
Patricia Hunt-Hurst 4. Production and Practice,
Sallie McNamara 5. Health and Hygiene,
Janice M. Allan 6. Gender and Sexuality,
Sarah Heaton 7. Race and Ethnicity,
Elizabeth Way 8. Class and Social Status,
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller 9. Cultural Representations,
Sally West Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
