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. Introduction In 1957 , at the age of five , I saw my first Shirley Temple movie . I was entranced by the " poor little rich girl ... black , waist - length braids , hoping somehow to ...
What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives Rose Weitz. slightly with gel , in what my second husband describes admiringly as a " power haircut . " Still mostly black , my hair sparkles with gray . For now , I savor the salt - and ...
What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives Rose Weitz. malleability allows us to tell others who we are by ... black , a white woman with waist - length hair might leave us shaking our heads over why so many men prefer long hair . And if ...
What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives Rose Weitz. never seen in nature, post-punk goths wear their hair long and jet black, and U.S. soldiers wear their hair cut short. Although these days women and men can choose from a broad ...
What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives Rose Weitz. with her head bare ... black, and 5 percent were Asian. Fifty-four percent were raised Protestant ... women overall. Similarly, 24 percent of all American women over age twenty ...
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 |