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Plucked.: Rebecca M. Herzig. NYU Press, - pages. 4 Avis. Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty. From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a. Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, a whimsical undertaking by the author's admission, supplements the robust historical literature on beauty practices and the beauty industry in the www.doorway.ru book focuses on body hair removal practices as well as attitudes and beliefs about hair as an element of sexuality or beauty, hairy masculinity on the one hand and hairless femininity on the other. Plucked.: Rebecca M. Herzig. NYU Press, - Social Science - pages. 4 Reviews. Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty. From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans.
In Plucked, historian Rebecca Herzig addresses these questions about hair removal. She shows how, over time, dominant American beliefs about visible hair changed: where once elective hair removal was considered a "mutilation" practiced primarily by "savage" men, by the turn of the twentieth century, hair-free faces and limbs were expected for. Herzig tracks the history of the commercialization of hair removal in industrial and post-industrial America. The book demonstrates persuasively that modern communications influenced fashions in hair removal as the U.S. moved from the era of ladies’ magazines to the broadcast age. Dr. Rebecca Herzig writes a detailed account of the history of hair removal in America, from first European contact with Indigenous peoples to modern day America. Ultimately the book shows how such a widespread, largely unquestioned practice as hair removal actually has a lot to say about American ideology, white supremacy, science, sex, gender, and capitalism.
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