Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845207922)

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.

Author: Geraldine Biddle-Perry
ISBN-10: 1845207920
ISBN-13: 9781845207922
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2010