Why women remove their body hair

What is it about?

The first and only English-language academic exploration of what the meanings of body hair and its removal are about in a range of areas: literature, film, art, and advertising. Queer theory and gender theory are both deployed and in turn developed to allow for this exploration.

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Why is it important?

A consideration of body hair raises both crucial questions about gender, sexuality, race and identity, but also about the very question of what can be studied academically: body hair and its removal are seen as either to silly, frivolous and unimportant to discuss or to dangerous and disgusting. The book explores these views and their origins.