A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-3209-8 (ISBN)
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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 |
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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 |
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