Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics

by Breanne Fahs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295750286
• ISBN13: 9780295750286
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher