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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... teenage girls to go shopping with their hair in rollers; doing so indicated that they were committed to looking attractive and held the promise that they would indeed look good once their hair was “done.” It also partly explains why ...
... teenage girls learn to use their hair to play with potential new identities , to cope with the pressures imposed by narrow standards of what a girl should be like , and to assert who they are and whom they want to become . In so doing ...
... teenager in the 1920s , decades before the practice was considered socially acceptable . According to her daughter , Alix Nelson , Polykoff dyed her hair not to hide her origins but because " she believed in the [ American ] dream , and ...
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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 |