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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What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives Rose Weitz. Rapunzel's Daughters WHAT WOMEN'S HAIR TELLS US ABOUT WOMEN'S LIVES ROSE WEITZ Farrar , Straus and Giroux New York To my nieces Hannah and Sabine Title Page Introduction Table.
... York Age magazine in 1910 read: “Race [i.e., black] men and women may easily have straight, soft, long hair by simply applying Plough's Hair Dressing and in a short time all your kinky, snarly, ugly, curly hair becomes soft, silky ...
... York City, short naturals no longer turn heads, while a wealth of African immigrants trained in hair arts have driven down the price of braiding, making braids more popular there than elsewhere. Most black women who don't straighten ...
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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 |