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Can I read Beyond Vanity : The History and Power of Hairdressing on EtoBox?
Beyond Vanity : The History and Power of Hairdressing by Elizabeth L. Block is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond Vanity : The History and Power of Hairdressing about?
From the award-winning author of Dressing Up , a riveting and diverse history of women’s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant, but it could also impact one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was also a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local, national, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity , Elizabeth Block expands the nascent field of hair studies by restoring women’s hair as a cultural site of meaning in the early United States. With a special focus on the places and spaces in which the hair industry operated, Block argues that the importance of hair has been overlooked due to its ephemerality as well as its misguided association with frivolity and triviality. As Block clarifies, hairdressing was anything but frivolous. Using methods of visual and material culture studies informed by concepts of cultural geography, Block identifies multiple substantive categories of place and space within which hair acted. These include the preparatory places of the bedroom, hair salon, and enslaved peopl
Who reads Beyond Vanity : The History and Power of Hairdressing?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elizabeth L. Block
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262379465
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Design, Science