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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... growing up) in the Midwest, 21 percent in the Mountain West states, 19 percent in the Southeast, 14 percent on the Pacific coast, 12 percent in the Northeast, and 7 percent overseas. Forty-two percent of those I interviewed who sixteen ...
... growing importance of capitalism and the declining significance of religion . If , in a religion - driven world , men gained status by having a wife who appeared modest , in a market - driven world men gained status by displaying an ...
... grow in popularity in the early twentieth century. It's probably not coincidence that this happened simultaneously with the great rise in immigration from southern and eastern Europe. As these immigrants congregated in the ghettos and ...
... grow in popularity among white women . This rise in hair dyeing also reflected the growing " cult of youth , " which would continue to gain strength throughout the twentieth century and increasingly stigmatize gray hair in women . 23 ...
... growing acceptance of the Afro eventually proved its undoing: Once the Afro became fashionable, it lost its political implications and, like any other fashion, eventually fell out of style. Those who continued to wear Afros were now ...
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 |