The last taboo : women and body hair / edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.
'The Last Taboo' argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It asks how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Manchester ; New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave,
2006.
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Summary: | 'The Last Taboo' argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It asks how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847794444 1847794440 9781781702567 178170256X |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |