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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... feminists for simpler hairstyles that wouldn't press women to restrict their activities found few takers , even among feminists . Those calls , at any rate , were only a footnote in the larger struggle for " dress reform , " which ...
... feminist impulses. By the end of the nineteenth century, feminists were almost solely focusing their energies on winning the vote for women and on other major reforms in politics, health, and education. By this time, too, women's ...
... feminists might have hoped , the new hairstyles compelled women to spend more money and time on their hair . Whereas women who grew their hair long could easily find a friend to trim the ends every few months , those who bobbed their ...
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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 |