June 2018: 210pp12 illustrations

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Why hair? whywomen? Amit Kama and Sigal Barak-Brandes Part I: Agencyand Resistance Reified by Women's Hair Chapter 1: Fierygingers: Redhead girls in children’s popular culture ; DafnaLemish, Diana Floegel, and Michal Lentz Chapter 2: Hair ritesand wrongs: Tonsorial acts in the work of women artists; ShirAloni Yaari Chapter 3: Samson the Hero in the newmillennium: Hair donation, altruism, and feminine bravery;Sigal Barak-Brandes Chapter 4: Hair as an indicator ofliberation: Lesbian's biographical paths; Sophie Devineau andCélia Laplace Chapter 5: "It won't go straight": Curly-hairedwomen tell their stories; Shani Okavi-Partush, Amit Kama, andSigal Barak-Brandes Part II: Women's Hair as a Marker ofIdentity Chapter 6: Ages and stages: African American womenand their lives through their hair; Ashley Garrin and SaraMarcketti ; Chapter 7: Hair and the "body-self" of womenwith body image despair and eating disorders; Margo MaineChapter 8: Women’s gray hair as an abomination of the body:Conceal and pass, or reveal and subvert; Vanessa Cecil, LouiseF. Pendry, Jessica Salvatore, and Tim Kurz Chapter 9: Women'sgray hair in online discussions; Lia Friesem Part III: Women'sHair in a Consumerist Age Chapter 10: Black women’s hairpolitics impact on bodily health: A historical essay; MelodieDavis-Bundrage, Katalin Medvedev, and Patricia Hunt-HurstChapter 11: Creative consumption of modesty: The wig in aJewish Israeli Ultra-Orthodox community; Rakefet Erlich RonChapter 12: Imagery of hair and identity in album covers:Beyoncé, Bjork, Madonna, and PJ Harvey; Özgür Çalışkan Index

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Feminist Interrogationsof Women's Head HairCrown of Glory and Shame

Edited by Sigal Barak-Brandes and Amit Kama

Feminist scholarship has looked extensively at the perception of the body as a flexible construction of cultural and social dictates, but head hair has been often overlooked. Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair brings new focus to this underrepresented topic through its intersections with contemporary socio-cultural contexts.

Scholars from a wide range of disciplines investigate private and public meanings associated with female head hair, problematising our assumptions about its role and implications in the 21st Century. Readers are invited to reflect on the use of hair in popular culture, such as children’s television and pop album artwork, as well as in work by women artists. Studies examine the lived experiences of women from a range of backgrounds and histories, including curly-haired women in Israel, African American women, and lesbians in France. Other essays interrogate the connotations of women’s head hair in relation to body image, religion, and aging.

Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair brings together cultural discourses and the lived experiences of women, across time and place, to reveal the complex and ever-evolving significance of hair. It is an important contribution to the critical feminist thought in cultural studies, fashion studies, media studies, African American studies, queer theory, gerontology, psychology, and sociology.

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