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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... hair and many of the new immigrants had blonde hair, these ideas linking immigrants, dark hair, and dangerous inferiority undoubtedly increased the value of blondeness.22 Still, dyeing one's hair remained risque: The obviously dyed blondes ...
... hair dyes became safer , easier to apply , and longer - lasting . Although hair straighteners left black women's ... blonde as a teenager in the 1920s , decades before the practice was considered socially acceptable . According to her ...
... hair to skyrocket from 7 percent in the 1950s to 40 percent in the 1970s . ( That percentage has remained steady ; most women today who are not simply covering gray buy blonde hair color . ) 24 Clairol's products remained the most popular ...
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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 |