Unshaved : Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics Hardback
by Breanne Fahs
Hardback
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Gross. Dirty. Monstrous. Manly. Authentic. Beautiful. Natural. Powerful. Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends.
It is tangled up with culture itself—in art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and capitalism.
From Chinese activists challenging the Communist Party, to students in Arizona rejecting their family and workplace ideas about grooming, to high-art feminist photographers boldly featuring hairy women, Fahs deftly explores the volatile and ever-changing landscape of women's body hair politics.
She showcases an underground movement of artists, zine-makers, rebels, and activists who have used women's visible body hair as a declaration of freedom from patriarchal norms. Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice but as a connection to broader cultural stories about women's reproductive rights, feminist battlegrounds about autonomy, neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global tensions around women's place in society.
Ultimately, Unshaved shows the collision between the mundane and the extraordinary, the everyday and the revolutionary.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages, 16 b&w illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:14/06/2022
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- ISBN:9780295750279
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages, 16 b&w illus.
- Publisher:University of Washington Press
- Publication Date:14/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780295750279
