New PDF release: Plucked: A History of Hair Removal (Biopolitics)

By Rebecca M. Herzig

From the clamshell razors and home made lye depilatories utilized in colonial the US to the diode lasers and prescription prescription drugs on hand this present day, american citizens have used a surprising array of instruments to take away hair deemed ugly, unnatural, or over the top. this can be precise specially for girls and women; conservative estimates point out that ninety nine% of yankee ladies have attempted hair elimination, and no less than eighty five% usually get rid of hair from their faces, armpits, legs, and bikini strains. How and while does hair develop into a problem—what makes a few development “excessive”? Who or what separates the mandatory from the superfluous?

In Plucked, historian Rebecca Herzig addresses those questions on hair elimination. She exhibits how, over the years, dominant American ideals approximately noticeable hair replaced: the place as soon as optional hair removing was once thought of a “mutilation” practiced basically through “savage” males, by way of the flip of the 20th century, hair-free faces and limbs have been anticipated for ladies. seen hair growth—particularly on younger, white women—came to be perceived as an indication of political extremism, sexual deviance, or psychological sickness. via the flip of the twenty-first century, an increasing number of american citizens have been waxing, threading, shaving, or lasering themselves delicate. Herzig’s remarkable account additionally finds the various collateral damages of the intensifying pursuit of hair-free epidermis. relocating past the studies of specific sufferers or consumers, Herzig describes the stunning histories of race, technological know-how, undefined, and drugs in the back of state-of-the-art hair-removing tools. Plucked is an unsettling, gripping, and unique story of the lengths to which americans will visit eliminate hair.

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