{"product_id":"global-hair-inequality-and-womens-riitta-hzigbacka-9783031977381","title":"Global Hair, Inequality and Women's Worth","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses human hair as a commodity as it traverses different social, cultural and economic contexts. It explores the meanings attributed to hair by the women donating it at Indian temples, and by those wearing it in Finland and South Africa. As an investigation into hair, it continues the long tradition in sociology that turns to small, everyday phenomena to interrogate more abstract, large-scale systems. The circulation and various uses of hair are explored through underlying inequalities connected to neoliberal capitalist processes and colonial continuities. The author unravels the effects of such macrostructures on women's economic position and social worth, which shape and are shaped by hair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences researching transnationality and consumption, global inequality, beauty and hierarchies of human value. It will also interest anyone wishing to learn about the intricacies of hair and women's everyday life in the Global North and South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Riitta Högbacka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031977386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031977381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 6.20w x 0.75d","brand":"Riitta Högbacka","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742930841855,"sku":"9783031977381","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-hair-inequality-and-womens-riitta-hzigbacka-9783031977381","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}