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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... white women with blunt-cut short hair sometimes endure harassment from those who label them lesbians, and black ... girls to go shopping with their hair in rollers; doing so indicated that they were committed to looking attractive and ...
... white American woman wearing Muslim robe and head covering whom I noticed in a Houston supermarket. Finally, to ... girls and women I interviewed ranged in age from ten to eighty-three. Sixty-eight percent were white non-Hispanic, very ...
... female lovers . " 6 Rapunzel's Daughters opens with a history of women's hair , and ... girls learn to use their hair to play with potential new identities , to ... white , black , or Hispanic ; straight or lesbian ; working - class or ...
... white Americans now associate with Indians, other tribes took pride in their own distinctive styles. Seminole girls and women created a smooth canopy of hair by brushing their long hair first toward and then straight out from their ...
... white Americans. Those who established these boarding schools believed that ... girls wear their hair falling haphazardly to their shoulders or below ... girls' (and boys') hair—considered by school administrators an especially important ...
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 |