Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair

Crown of Glory and Shame
Herausgeber: Barak-Brandes, Sigal; Kama, Amit

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Produktbeschreibung

Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair brings together cultural discourses and the lived experiences of women, across time and place, to reveal the complex and ever-evolving significance of hair. It is an important contribution to the critical feminist thought in cultural studies, fashion studies, media studies, African Am

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780367893149
• ISBN-10: 0367893142
• Artikelnr.: 69895097

Autorenporträt

Sigal Barak-Brandes is a Lecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research interests include: gender representations, media images and ideologies of motherhood, women and girls audiences, girls' images, girls and Facebook, media and crime victims. She has published in international journals such as Communication, Culture & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, The Communication Review, European Journal of Cultural Studies. Amit Kama is a Senior Lecturer at Yezreel Valley Academic College, Israel. His research focuses on minority groups - particularly, gay men and lesbians, people with disabilities, and migrant workers and immigrants - and the construction of their identities vis-à-vis mediated representations. In the past decade he has been studying cultural constructions and manifestations of the body. His works include numerous papers published in international and Israeli journals as well as five books published in Israel. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of LGBT Youth and Media Frame

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why hair? why women? Part I: Agency and Resistance Reified by
Women's Hair Chapter 1: Fiery gingers: Redhead girls in children's popular
cultureChapter 2: Hair rites and wrongs: Tonsorial acts in the work of
women artists Chapter 3: Samson the Hero in the new millennium: Hair
donation, altruism, and feminine bravery Chapter 4: Hair as an indicator of
liberation: Lesbian's biographical paths Chapter 5: "It won't go straight":
Curly-haired women tell their stories Part II: Women's Hair as a Marker of
Identity Chapter 6: Ages and stages: African American women and their lives
through their hair Chapter 7: Hair and the "body-self" of women with body
image despair and eating disorders Chapter 8: Women's gray hair as an
abomination of the body: Conceal and pass, or reveal and subvert Chapter 9:
Women's gray hair in online discussions Part III: Women's Hair in a
Consumerist Age Chapter 10: Black women's hair politics impact on bodily
health: A historical essay Chapter 11: Creative consumption of modesty: The
wig in a Jewish Israeli Ultra-Orthodox community Chapter 12: Imagery of
hair and identity in album covers: Beyoncé, Bjork, Madonna, and PJ Harvey