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string(23) "Copyright not evaluated"
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The last taboo
| Subtitle | women and body hair |
| Publish Place | Manchester |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Publish Year | 2007 |
| Pages | XII, 218p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9780719075001 |
| Illustration | ill. |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2006
| Description | This is an academic book written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on ‘hirsutism’, or fetishistic pornography on ‘hairy’ women. The Last Taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as ‘self-evidently’ too silly or too mad to write about. Using a wide range of thinking from gender theory, queer theory, critical and literary theory, history and anthropology the contributors argue that body hair plays a central role in masculinity and femininity and cultural and sexual identities. |
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