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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... Boys with long hair can legally be expelled from schools, and men with ponytails rarely find work as corporate executives, while white women with blunt-cut short hair sometimes endure harassment from those who label them lesbians, and ...
... boys') hair—considered by school administrators an especially important marker of Indian “savagery”—is subdued. The girls are dressed in starched and fitted dresses, often wearing or carrying bonnets. Most have their hair tightly pulled ...
... boys). Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux Indian, recalls how she felt when she realized that the teachers intended to cut her hair. The prospect particularly horrified her because among the Sioux short hair was worn only by mourners or those shamed ...
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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 |