The last taboo : women and body hair /: women and body hair. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.
• Other Names: Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín
• Contents: The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein -- 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius and modernity / Daniela Caselli -- A history of pubic hair, or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's After theory / Louise Tandeur -- Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / Alice Macdonald -- 'La justice, c'est la femme á barbe!': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's Le Mamelles de Tirésias / Stephen Thomson -- 'That wonderful phaenomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition / Carolyn D. Williams -- Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman / Jacqueline Lazú -- Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Laura Scuriatti -- Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Sue Walsh -- Women with beards in early modern Spain / Sherry Velasco -- On Frida Kahlo's mustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism / Neil Cocks.
• Publisher Details: Manchester New York : Manchester University Press Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.4613; Body image in women; Hair -- Social aspects; Body image in women Hair -- Social aspects; Hair -- Social aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; Body image in women; Hair -- Social aspects; Body Image; Hair; Taboo; Women; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847794444; 1847794440; 9781781702567
• Related ISBNs: 178170256X; 9780719075001; 0719075009
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.