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The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair
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The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (Editor)


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This is the first academic book ever 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, art history, anthropology and psychology, the contributors argue that in fact body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It is sure to provide many academic researchers with a completely fresh perspective on all of the fields mentioned above.

From the rear cover

This is the first academic book ever 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, art history, anthropology and psychology, the contributors argue that in fact body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It is sure to provide many academic researchers with a completely fresh perspective on all of the fields mentioned above.

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  • Title The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair
  • Author Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Date 2011-01-04
  • ISBN 9780719083235 / 0719083230
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.49 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Body image in women, Hair - Social aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.461

About the author


Karn Lesnik-Oberstein is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading
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