Rapunzel's daughters : what women's hair tells us about women's lives
"In Rapunzel's Daughters, Rose Weitz, a prominent sociologist, explores how and why hair matters so much in girls' and women's lives. She begins by surveying the history of women's hair, from the covered hair of the Middle Ages to the two-foot-high, wildly ornamented styles of pre-Revolutionary France to the purple dyes worn by some modern teens
Print Book, English, 2004
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2004
xx, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780374240820, 9780374529420, 0374240825, 0374529426
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The history of women's hair
Hot combs and scarlet ribbons
Ponytails and purple mohawks
What we do for love
Paychecks and power haircuts
Bald truths
At the salon
"I'll dye until I die"
No more bad hair days