Feminist interrogations of women's head hair : crown of glory and shame /: crown of glory and shame. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sigal Barak-Brandes and Amit Kama.
• Editors: Barak-Brandes, Sigal; Kama, Amit, 1960-
• Contents: Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Why hair? why women? Amit Kama and Sigal Barak-Brandes Part I: Agency and Resistance Reified by Women's Hair Chapter 1: Fiery gingers: Redhead girls in children’s popular culture Dafna Lemish, Diana Floegel, and Michal Lentz Chapter 2: Hair rites and wrongs: Tonsorial acts in the work of women artists Shir Aloni Yaari Chapter 3: Samson the Hero in the new millennium: Hair donation, altruism, and feminine bravery Sigal Barak-Brandes Chapter 4: Hair as an indicator of liberation: Lesbian's biographical paths Sophie Devineau and Célia Laplace Chapter 5: "It won't go straight": Curly-haired women tell their stories Shani Okavi-Partush, Amit Kama, and Sigal Barak-Brandes Part II: Women's Hair as a Marker of Identity Chapter 6: Ages and stages: African American women and their lives through their hair Ashley Garrin and Sara Marcketti Chapter 7: Hair and the "body-self" of women with body image despair and eating disorders Margo Maine Chapter 8: Women’s gray hair as an abomination of the body: Conceal and pass, or reveal and subvert Vanessa Cecil, Louise F. Pendry, Jessica Salvatore, and Tim Kurz Chapter 9: Women's gray hair in online discussions Lia Friesem Part III: Women's Hair in a Consumerist Age Chapter 10: Black women’s hair politics impact on bodily health: A historical essay Melodie Davis-Bundrage, Katalin Medvedev, and Patricia Hunt-Hurst Chapter 11: Creative consumption of modesty: The wig in a Jewish Israeli Ultra-Orthodox community Rakefet Erlich Ron Chapter 12: Imagery of hair and identity in album covers: Beyoncé, Bjork, Madonna, and PJ Harvey Özgür Çalışkan Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 391.5082; Hair -- Social aspects; Women -- Identity; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Feminist theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429999888; 9780429999895; 9780429999871; 9780429505430
• Related ISBNs: 9781138581418
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