Overview
- Offers the first survey of the history of facial hair across both time and geographical space
- Provides new insights into the male body and manliness in different time periods, contexts and societies
- Utilises innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches to the history of facial hair
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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(Re)Building the Beard?
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Masculinity and the Moustache
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Feminine Facial Hair and Feminine Responses to Facial Hair
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alun Withey is Wellcome Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Exeter, UK. An historian of early modern medicine and the body, he is currently working on a major research project on the history of facial hair in Britain. Recent publications include Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-century Britain (Palgrave, 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair
Book Subtitle: Framing the Face
Editors: Jennifer Evans, Alun Withey
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73497-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73496-5Published: 14 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08800-2Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73497-2Published: 02 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 249
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Gender Studies, Modern History