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Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-hatred - Softcover

Olid, Bel

 
9781509550197: Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-hatred
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509550194 ISBN 13: 9781509550197
Verlag: Polity, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes (not too sparse). All kinds of cosmetics are sold to achieve the desired effect of localized luxuriance. At the same time, the industry of removing hair everywhere else on the body advances relentlessly. Hair is no longer a sign of joy but a battleground of cosmetic surgery.

In this short book, the Catalan writer Bel Olid draws on personal experience to dismantle preconceived ideas about the supposed benefits of waxing and shaving, and to lay bare the social penalties that are meted out to any woman who allows their body hair to grow.  With clarity and courage, Bel Olid exposes the contradictions and hidden costs of hair removal, and issues a rousing call to women everywhere to set themselves free from the urge to please everyone else and to focus, instead, on what pleases them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bel Olid is a Catalan writer and translator who stopped trying to be the woman the world demands and started trying just... to be.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509550194
ISBN 13 
9781509550197
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
120
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