Ebook: The last taboo : women and body hair
Author: Lesnik-Oberstein Karín
- Tags: Body image in women Hair Social aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural SOCIAL Anthropology Popular Culture Image Taboo Women
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
- City: New York, Manchester
- Language: English
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'The Last Taboo' argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identities. It asks how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about.