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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... advertisements for hair additions took up three pages in the 1905 Sears , Roebuck catalog . Although these expenses could strain a family's budget , maintaining these hairstyles was essential , for hair was considered central to ...
... Advertisements for such products ran regularly in black-oriented magazines and newspapers. An advertisement placed in New York Age magazine in 1910 read: “Race [i.e., black] men and women may easily have straight, soft, long hair by ...
... advertising campaign developed by copywriter Shirley Polykoff . Polykoff , the dark - haired daughter of poor , immigrant Jewish parents , began dyeing her hair blonde as a teenager in the 1920s , decades before the practice was ...
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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 |