Bel Olid: Hairless | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781509550197 | Hairless | Bel Olid | Taschenbuch | 64 S. | Englisch | 2022

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Beschreibung

Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes (not too sparse). All kinds of cosmetics are sold to achieve the desired effect of localized luxuriance. At the same time, the industry of removing hair everywhere else on the body advances relentlessly. Hair is no longer a sign of joy but a battleground of cosmetic surgery.

In this short book, the Catalan writer Bel Olid draws on personal experience to dismantle preconceived ideas about the supposed benefits of waxing and shaving, and to lay bare the social penalties that are meted out to any woman who allows their body hair to grow. With clarity and courage, Bel Olid exposes the contradictions and hidden costs of hair removal, and issues a rousing call to women everywhere to set themselves free from the urge to please everyone else and to focus, instead, on what pleases them.

Über den Autor

Bel Olid is a Catalan writer and translator who stopped trying to be the woman the world demands and started trying just... to be.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 History of an Obsession 1

2 From Happiness to Shame 9

3 Is a Hairy Femininity Possible? 21

4 Because I Want To, Sure. But Why Do I Want To? 39

5 A Hairy Road to the Future 55

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	64 S.
ISBN-13:	9781509550197
ISBN-10:	1509550194
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	1A509550190
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Olid, Bel
Übersetzung:	Mcgloughlin, Laura
Hersteller:	Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße:	186 x 122 x 8 mm
Von/Mit:	Bel Olid
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.05.2022
Gewicht:	0,094 kg