Download PDF by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein: The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair

By Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

ISBN-10: 0719075009

ISBN-13: 9780719075001

ISBN-10: 0719083230

ISBN-13: 9780719083235

this is often the 1st educational ebook ever written on ladies and physique hair, which has been obvious beforehand as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to jot down approximately. Even feminist writers or researchers at the physique have came upon remarkably little to claim approximately physique hair, often ignoring it thoroughly. it is going to seem that the one texts to problematic on physique hair are publications on easy methods to get rid of it, clinical texts on 'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' girls. The final taboo additionally questions how and why any specific factor can develop into outlined as 'self-evidently' too foolish or too mad to write down about.

Using quite a lot of considering from gender conception, queer thought, serious and literary idea, historical past, artwork historical past, anthropology and psychology, the members argue that during truth physique hair performs a significant position in developing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. it's bound to offer many educational researchers with a very clean viewpoint on the entire fields pointed out above.

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