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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... there's a reason we talk about hair so much, and a reason why bad hair days drag us down so far: Our hair is one of the primary ways we tell others who we are and by which others evaluate us, for it implicitly conveys messages about our ...
... there than elsewhere. Most black women who don't straighten their hair wear wigs, multiple braids, or “weaves.” In a weave, purchased fake or real hair (often imported from Asia) is sewn in bunches to a woman's own hair or to netting ...
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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 |