Hair Matters
Author | : Ingrid Banks |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780814713365 |
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Author | : Ingrid Banks |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780814713365 |
Contains primary source material.
Author | : Ingrid Banks |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2000-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814713378 |
Contains primary source material.
Author | : Joshua Galvin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985-04-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1349178284 |
Author | : Noliwe M. Rooks |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780813523125 |
We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. She discusses the ways in which African American women have located themselves in their own families, communities, and national culture through beauty advertisements, treatments, and styles. Bringing the story into today's beauty shop, listening to other women talk about braids, Afros, straighteners, and what they mean today to grandmothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and boyfriends, she also talks about her own family and has fun along the way. Hair Raising is that rare sort of book that manages both to entertain and to illuminate its subject.
Author | : Peg Zeglin Brand |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780253213754 |
Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin, often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of beautification—beauty matters—to reveal the ways gender, race, and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and reveal that beauty is never disinterested.
Author | : Kimberly Battle-Walters |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780847699339 |
The author studies the impact of race on the everyday lifes of working-class African American women by using beauty shop talk. They discuss from relationships and beauty to politics, equality, race, gender, and class. They speak in their own words about their families and communities and the struggles they face in areas of life.
Author | : Geraldine Biddle-Perry |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350122831 |
Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, advances in chemical science and new understandings of bodies and minds have been embraced by new kinds of hairdressers and their clientele and embodied in styles that reflect shifting ideals of what it is to be and to look modern. The emergence of the ladies hairdressing salon, the rise of the celebrity stylist, the impact of Hollywood, an expanding mass media, and a new synergy between fashions in clothing and hairstyles have rippled out globally. Fashions in hair styles and their representation have taken on new meanings as a way of resisting dominant social structures, experimenting with social taboos, and expressing a modern sense of self. From the 1920s bob to the punk cut, hair has continued to be deeply involved in society's larger issues. Drawing on a wealth of visual, textual and object sources, and illustrated with 75 images, A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age presents essays that explore how politics, science, religion, fashion, beauty, the visual arts, and popular culture have reshaped modern hair and its significance as an agent of social change.
Author | : Julia Schlam Edelman |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0801893828 |
A guide for improving a woman's physical and mental health from age 35 and on. It covers topics of vital interest to perimenopausal and postmenopausal women: hot flashes, vaginal dryness, poor sleep, memory loss, mood changes, depression, hormone replacement therapy, sleep, diet, exercise, weight control, and healthy sex.
Author | : Elayne Becker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781631320323 |
"Hair Matters" by Elaine Becker is a collection of stories and humorous observations about hair. Hair styles are barometers of culture and help define who we are. Those amazing strands are a metaphor and symbol of life's journey. How you look and feel connects powerfully to your hair.
Author | : Lisa-Jo Baker |
Publisher | : WaterBrook |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-07-23 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0525652841 |
The best-selling author of Never Unfriended opens up about midlife and what it feels like to have outgrown those teenage jeans—but finally grown into the shape of our souls. “I want to give Lisa-Jo’s book a standing ovation.”—Aarti Sequeira, chef and TV personality Do you ever wonder how you woke up one day with all the responsibilities of a grown-up who secretly enjoys buying groceries in bulk, can no longer recognize the tween celebrities on the magazines at checkout, but is still surprised when a Starbucks barista calls you “ma’am”—because your inside self is frozen in time to about twenty years ago? So does Lisa-Jo Baker. In these intimate reflections on midlife, Lisa-Jo invites us to get a good look at our middles and gives us permission to embrace them—beyond what the media, the mirror, or the magazines say. Through gutsy, beautiful storytelling, she admits out loud what most of us are thinking about marriage, parenting, the bathroom scale, and how badly we all want to buy those matching Magnolia Market mugs. Her delicious stories come from not being afraid of who she is, because Lisa-Jo knows that the middle might be the best part of the love story of life, kids, faith, doubt, marriage, failure, wonder, and the muffin top—and that these are all good things. She’s not asking you to seize the day, just to make sure you actually see it for all its wildly ordinary glory. Welcome to the middle! Praise for The Middle Matters “What a thought-provoking collection of reflections and wisdom! Through personal stories about love, loss, and life in the middle, Lisa-Jo invites us to take a long look inside our own mind’s secret nooks and crannies, which aren’t nearly as dark, scary, or ordinary as we might think.”—Layla Palmer, The Lettered Cottage blog “With captivating wit, hard-won wisdom, and breathtaking honesty, Lisa-Jo has written a love letter to the delicious middle.”—Mandy Arioto, president and CEO of MOPS International and author of Have More Fun “With Lisa-Jo’s guts as our unfettered guide, may we finally learn the sumptuous truth of our years: that a grilled cheese sandwich without the middle is just toast.”—Erin Loechner, founder of OtherGoose and author of Chasing Slow “Thank you, Lisa-Jo, for reminding women everywhere how important it is to find meaning in the midst of the confusing middle.”—Joy Prouty, artist and educator