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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Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism / Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
- 'The wives of geniuses I have sat with': body hair, genius and modernity / Daniela Caselli
- A history of pubic hair, or reviewers' responses to Terry Eagleton's After theory / Louise Tandeur
- Hairs on the lens: female body hair on the screen / Alice Macdonald
- 'La justice, c'est la femme á barbe!': the bearded lady, displacement and recuperation in Apollinaire's Le Mamelles de Tirésias / Stephen Thomson
- 'That wonderful phaenomenon': female body hair and English literary tradition / Carolyn D. Williams
- Fur or hair: l'effroi et l'attirance of the wild-woman / Jacqueline Lazú
- Designers' bodies: women and body hair in contemporary art and advertising / Laura Scuriatti
- Bikini fur and fur bikinis / Sue Walsh
- Women with beards in early modern Spain / Sherry Velasco
- On Frida Kahlo's mustache: a reading of Self-portrait with cropped hair and its criticism / Neil Cocks.