The last taboo: women, body hair and feminism

What is it about?

This is the first and to date only academic book on body hair. In the edited volume, academics from a whole range of disciplines (literature, film studies, advertising, gender and queer theory, feminist studies, art history, anthropology) explore the role of body hair in relation to gender, ethnic and sexual identity, but also explore the entire issue of why some topics- such as body hair - are regarded as too silly and/ or too dangerous to study academically.

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Why is it important?

This is the first and only academic book in the field and it addresses in radical terms how academic studies decide what is relevant to be studied academically and how and why body hair is seen as both too 'silly' and too dangerous to be a topic of academic (or any) study. At the same time, the book explores how body hair can be thought of in relation to the most fundamental issues around sexual, ethnic and gender identity in a whole range of fields.