Concerning beards : : facial hair, health and practice in England 1650-1900 / / Alun Withey.
"Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings, medical implications and socio-cultural significance from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. Withey charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair, and shaving - away f...
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| Superior document: | Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ; : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2020. [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Facialities : interdisciplinary approaches to the human face
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly black and white); digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Facial hair, health and the body, c.1650-1750
- The faces of politeness : facial hair, masculinity and culture in the long eighteenth century
- The dominion of the beard, c.1850-1900
- The medical practices and practitioners of shaving in early modern Britain
- Economies of shaving, c.1650-1750
- Refining the face : auto- pogonotomy and self-styling, 1750-1900
- Hairs and graces : barbers, hairdressers and shaving, c.1750-1900
- The bearded classes : facial hair and social status, 1700-1900
- Cleanse, cut and control : the institutional history of facial Hair
- The commodification of shaving, 1650-1850
- Selling shaving in the age of the beard : the market for shaving products, c.1850-1890
- Conclusion.