New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair: Framing the Face 1st Edition

New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair: Framing the Face 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319734965,9783319734972,3319734962,3319734970

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319734970
• ISBN-13: 9783319734972
• Author:  Alun Withey, Jennifer Evans

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.

Table contents:

Part I. (Re)Building the Beard?
1 Social Science, Gender Theory and the History of Hair
2 ‘The Very Head and Front of My Offending’: Beards, Portraiture and Self-Presentation in Early Modern England
3 Hair, Beards and the Fashioning of English Manhood in Early Modern Travel Texts
4 Beardless Young Men? Facial Hair and the Construction of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Self-Portraits
5 Making Facial Hair Modern: Shaving and Hirsuteness in Post-war Britain
6 A Tiny Cloak of Privilege: Facial Hair and Story Telling
Part II. Masculinity and the Moustache
7 Combing Masculine Identity in the Age of the Moustache, 1860–1900
8 Whiskers at War: Moustaches, Masculinity and the Military in Twentieth-Century Britain
Part III. Feminine Facial Hair and Feminine Responses to Facial Hair
9 ‘We’ll Imagine, Madam, You Have a Beard’: Beards and Early Female Playwrights
10 Shades of Facial Hairiness at the French Court: The Case of Marie-Joséphine of Savoy, Countess of Provence

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