Jennifer Evans & Alun Withey (Eds.)
Palgrave Macmillan
2018
ISBN 978-3-319-73496-5
This volume brings together a range of scholars from
diverse disciplinary backgrounds to re-examine the histories of facial
hair and its place in discussions of gender, the military, travel and
art, amongst others. Chapters in the first section of the collection
explore the intricate history of beard wearing and shaving, including
facial hair fashions in long historical perspective, and the depiction
of beards in portraiture. Section Two explores the shifting meanings of
the moustache, both as a manly symbol in the nineteenth century, and
also as the focus of the material culture of personal grooming. The
final section of the collection charts the often-complex relationship
between men, women and facial hair. It explores how women used facial
hair to appropriate masculine identity, and how women’s own hair was
read as a sign of excessive and illicit sexuality.
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