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Book SynopsisGeraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, London, UK, and co-author of
Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion.Trade ReviewA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs. * Times Literary Supplement *
[I]n carefully argued, insightful case studies that deploy sophisticated analytical tools, this volume’s contributors document the complex shifts in hair dressing and grooming which have located hair as central to contemporary individualistic self-fashioning and as a key signifier of sexuality and lifestyle politics. Innovative and persuasive, this collection provides an invaluable history of hair for those who want to truly understand its modern significance and powerful cultural status. -- Andrew Stephenson, University of East London, UK
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface Introduction: Modern Hair in a Modern Age,
Geraldine Biddle-Perry 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief,
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Hanna Cody 2. Self and Society,
Elisha P. Renne (Part 1)
and Royce Mahawatte (Part 2) 3. Fashion and Adornment,
Alice Beard 4. Production and Practice,
Kim Smith 5. Health and Hygiene,
Paul R. Deslandes 6. Gender and Sexuality,
Chelsea Johnson and Kristen Barber 7. Race and Ethnicity,
Shirley Anne Tate 8. Class and Social Status,
Geraldine Biddle-Perry 9. Cultural Representations,
Nathalie Khan Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
