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Hair : an illustrated history

Vincent, Susan J., author

Overview

Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex. Using art, film, personal diaries, newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the 1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture, remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Subject: Hair History. / Hairstyles History. / Hairstyles Social aspects. / Body image History. / Human body Social aspects. / Frisur / Haar / Haarpflege / Haartracht
• ISBN: 9780857851710, 0857851713, 9780857851710, 0857851713, 9780857851703, 0857851705

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GT2290.V55 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE