The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair

By Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Book Overview

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the 'cultural' and 'natural' in western culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719083230
• ISBN13: 9780719083235
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"