Jennifer (Hrsg.) Evans

New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair

Framing the Face

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This volume brings together a range of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to re-examine the histories of facial hair and its place in discussions of gender, the military, travel and art, amongst others. Chapters in the first section of the collection explore the intricate history of beard wearing and shaving, including facial hair fashions in long historical perspective, and the depiction of beards in portraiture. Section Two explores the shifting meanings of the moustache, both as a manly symbol in the nineteenth century, and also as the focus of the material culture of personal grooming. The final section of the collection chart… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Withey, Alun (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-73497-2
EAN: 9783319734972
Produktnummer: 26247077
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 249 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'670 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße und 3 farbige Abbildungen, 5 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Jennifer Evans is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her research focuses on the body, gender and medicine in the seventeenth century. She is currently working on a project exploring men's sexual health in the seventeenth century. Recent publications include Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2017), co-edited with Ciara Meehan. 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).