Artikel
Gender and body hair : constructing the feminine woman
Verfasst von:
Toerien, Merran
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in:
New York [u.a.]:
2003
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333 - 344 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Toerien, Merran; Wilkinson, Sue |
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| Jahr: | 2003 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Women's body hair removal is trongly normative within contemporary Western culture. although often trivialised, and seldom the subject of academic study, the hairlessness norm powerfully endorses the assumption that a woman's body is unacceptable if unaltered; its very normativity points to a socio-cultural presumption that hairlessness is the qppropirate condition for the feminine body. Thsi paper explores biological/medical, historical and mythological literature pertaining to body hair and gender, as well as feminist analyses of the norm for feminine hairlessness. Much of this literature both reflects and constructs an unterstanding of hairlessness as "just the way things are". Taken-for-granted hairlessness serves, this paper argues, both to demarcate the masculine from the feminine, and to contruct the appropriately feminine woman as primarily concerned with her appearance as "tamed" and as less than fully adult | |
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