The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair - Hardcover

3.78

18 ratings by Goodreads

9780719075001: The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719075009 ISBN 13: 9780719075001

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2007

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on 'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' women. The Last Taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Kar�n Lesnik-Oberstein is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading.

Review:

"This is a genuinely entertaining and informative book that reveals body hair as a vital methodological lens by which to illuminate not only practices of regulation around gender and sexuality, but also highlighting how these are linked to 'race', colonialism and ultimately to the ambiguities and efforts to contain the uncertain and fragile boundaries constructed within modern western culture between nature and culture."--Prof. Erica Burman, Manchester Metropolitan University

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.