Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's LivesThe first book to explore the role of hair in women's lives and what it reveals about their identities, intimate relationships, and work lives |
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... gender, age, politics, social class, and more. Hollywood scriptwriters understand this dynamic well. For example, at the beginning of the 1988 film Working Girl, actress Melanie Griffith works in a typing pool and wears her hair long ...
... from their parents' generation and from their “straight” peers. In the same manner, regardless of gender, punks wore their hair moussed into long spikes and dyed colors never seen in nature, post-punk goths wear their hair long.
... the world, we tell others about our occupation, gender, age, ethnicity, values, emotions, and even sexual availability. Equally important, others judge and respond to us in part based on our hair . Those responses , in turn ,
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Contents
WOMENS HAIR TODAY | |
THREE Ponytails and Purple Mohawks | |
FOUR What We Do for Love | |
FIVE Paychecks and Power Haircuts | |
SIX Bald Truths | |
SEVEN At the Salon | |
EIGHT Ill Dye Until I Die | |
NINE No More Bad Hair Days | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
Other editions - View all
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives Rose Weitz Limited preview - 2004 |
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives Rose Weitz No preview available - 2004 |
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives Rose Weitz No preview available - 2005 |