Hair - Styling, Culture and Fashion (Hardcover)

Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness, and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories, histories, performances and rituals. From heads, legs and underarms, to wigs and beards, and everything in between, the presentation, manipulation and daily experience of human hair plays a central and dynamic role within fashion, self-expression and the creation of social identity. The book's diverse range of cross-cultural essays encompasses the study of hair in fashion, film, art, history, literature, performance and consumer culture. Offering an accessible mix of visual analysis, cultural commentary and critical theory, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion will appeal to all those interested in the presentation and analysis of cultural identity and the body.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	February 2009
Editors:	Geraldine Biddle-Perry • Sarah Cheang
Dimensions:	244 x 172 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-1-84520-791-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion Promotions
LSN:	1-84520-791-2
Barcode:	9781845207915

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