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Hair, Gender and Looking

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Biddle-Perry, Geraldine (2008) Hair, Gender and Looking. In: Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion. Berg, Oxford and New York, pp. 97-111. ISBN 9781845207922

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Type of Research:	Book Section
Creators:	Biddle-Perry, Geraldine
Description:	This chapter explores head and body hair as a constant (and historically consistent) means of spectacular gender identification. However, rather than focussing on what is looked at and looked for, it is the power of looking that is under scrutiny here. This chapter analyses the presentational and representational symbolic potential of the sight of human hair or its visible absence and its pivotal role in the articulation of gendered looking.
Official Website:	http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hair-9781845207922/
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:	aesthetic codes and conventions, hair, hairlessness
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company:	Berg
Your affiliations with UAL:	Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Date:	1 December 2008
Projects or Series:	Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2015 13:43
Last Modified:	19 Feb 2026 10:39
Item ID:	8844
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/8844
Licence:	No Licence

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