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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-3209-8 (ISBN)

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19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show at the Great Exhibitions. The latter, hosted at venues such as the Crystal Palace, hinted at the level of global trade in hair economies, from hair harvest, hairpieces, and hairwork to commodities for styling and adornment. It was a period when hair became fetishized in all sorts of ways, from fashioning hair to moralising constriction, from suggestions of sexuality in abundant free-flowing locks, to intricate hair-incorporating jewellery which offered spiritual connections to the dead. In a period of increasing globalization and associated anxieties, hair came to express identity not just for the individual but for different cultures. Perhaps inevitably, hair itself became a contested site of signification whether as the strands of the diaspora, the cut locks of the underclass, or the coiffures of the court.

A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the tangled tresses of hair in this period, with essays covering: Religion and Ritualized Belief; Self and Society; Fashion and Adornment; Production and Practice; Health and Hygiene; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Class and Social Status and Cultural Representations.

Sarah Heaton is Head of English at the University of Chester.

List of Illustrations
General Editor's Preface
Introduction: Empires of Hair and their Afterlives
Sarah Heaton

1. Religion and Ritualized Belief: Myth, Folklore and Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Representations of Hair: Unweaving the Tangled Tresses of Influence and Obsession
Richard Leahy
2. Self and Society
Jonathon Shears
3. Fashion and Adornment: African American Women in the United States, 1800 to 1920
Patricia Hunt-Hurst
4. Production and Practice: Hair Harvest, Hairpieces and Hairwork
Sallie McNamara
5. Health and Hygiene: ‘Monster top-knots and balloon chignons’: Purity and Contamination in the False Hair Trade
Janice M. Allan
6. Gender and Sexuality: Tresses Adorned and Adored, Locks Coiled and Cut
Sarah Heaton
7. Race and Ethnicity: Strands of the Diaspora: Black Hair in the Americas 1800-1920
Elizabeth Way
8. Class and Social Status: ‘The more you have the better’; Or, The Politics and Economics of Hair
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
9. Cultural Representations: The Abundant Signifier
Sally West

Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	46 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	588 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4742-3209-4 / 1474232094
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-3209-8 / 9781474232098
Zustand	Neuware