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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... Ponytails and Purple Mohawks CHANGING HAIR, CHANGING IDENTITIES LESBIAN TEENS, HAIR, AND IDENTITY FOUR- What We Do for Love CATCHING A MAN HAIR IN RELATIONSHIPS CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE FROM MEN FIVE - Paychecks and Power Haircuts ...
... 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 black women with dreadlocks or multiple braids sometimes face job ...
... ponytails, one above each ear. The first three inches of each ponytail were wrapped tightly with colored twine. The remaining hair was woven around a curved wooden stick, then twisted into a bun-like whorl. As each tribe in turn was ...
... ponytail, but it certainly is contained. More rarely, school officials had girls' hair cut (as was the norm for boys). Zitkala-Sa, a Sioux Indian, recalls how she felt when she realized that the teachers intended to cut her hair. The ...
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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 |