- 308 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Gross. Dirty. Monstrous. Manly. Authentic. Beautiful. Natural. Powerful. Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itselfâin art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and capitalism. From Chinese activists challenging the Communist Party, to students in Arizona rejecting their family and workplace ideas about grooming, to high-art feminist photographers boldly featuring hairy women, Fahs deftly explores the volatile and ever-changing landscape of women's body hair politics. She showcases an underground movement of artists, zine-makers, rebels, and activists who have used women's visible body hair as a declaration of freedom from patriarchal norms. Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice but as a connection to broader cultural stories about women's reproductive rights, feminist battlegrounds about autonomy, neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global tensions around women's place in society. Ultimately, Unshaved shows the collision between the mundane and the extraordinary, the everyday and the revolutionary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- Introduction: Revolting Bodies or Bodies in Revolt?
- Part 1: Revolting Bodies
- Part 2: Art and Activism
- Part 3: Body Hair Rebels
- Epilogue: They Are Going to Be Mad at Us
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index