New perspectives on the history of facial hair : framing the face /: framing the face. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jennifer Evans, Alun Withey.
• Editors: Evans, Jennifer, 1984-; Withey, Alun
• Contents: Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Alun Withey.- Part I: (Re)Building the Beard?.- 2. Social Science, Gender Theory and the History of Hair; Christopher Oldstone-Moore.- 3.'The head and front of my offending': beards, portraiture, and self-presentation in early modern England; Margaret Pelling.- 4.Hair, Beards and the Fashioning of English Manhood in Early Modern Travel Texts; Eleanor Rycroft.- 5.Beardless Young Men? Some Notes on the Construction of Masculinities through Facial Hair in Nineteenth-Century Spain; M. Victoria Alonso Cabezas.- 6.Facial hair and historical memory in 1960s and 1970s Britain; Mark Anderson.- 7. A Tiny Cloak of Privilege: Facial Hair and Story Telling; Helen Casey.- Part II: Masculinity and the Moustache.- 8.Combing Masculine Identity in the Age of the Moustache, 1870-1900; Sharon Twickler.- 9.Whiskers at War: Moustaches, Modernity, Militarism and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century British Army; Alice White.- Part III: Feminine Facial Hair and Feminine Responses to Facial Hair.- 10.'Clap on these False Beards': Female Playwrights and their Beards; Morwenna Carr.- 11. Feminine Facial Hair in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century France; Aurore Chéry.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 391.5; Beards -- History; Mustaches -- History; Beards -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319734972
• Related ISBNs: 9783319734965
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