Hair

Hair: Styling Culture and Fashion explores the social importance of hair wherever it grows explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories histories performances and rituals. <br/><br/>From heads legs and underarms to wigs and beards and everything in between the presentation manipulation and daily experience of human hair plays a central and dynamic role within fashion self-expression and the creation of social identity. The book's diverse range of cross-cultural essays encompasses the study of hair in fashion film art history literature performance and consumer culture. <br/><br/>Offering an accessible mix of visual analysis cultural commentary and critical theory Hair: Styling Culture and Fashion will appeal to all those interested in the presentation and analysis of cultural identity and the body.