TY - BOOK ID - 77892336 TI - The last taboo PY - 2006 SN - 178170256X 1847794440 9781847794444 9781781702567 9780719075001 0719075009 PB - Manchester New York New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the USA by Palgrave DB - UniCat KW - Body image in women. KW - Hair KW - Hairs KW - Body covering (Anatomy) KW - Head KW - Scalp KW - Women KW - Social aspects. KW - Psychology KW - Body Image. KW - Hair. KW - Taboo. KW - Women. KW - Image du corps chez la femme KW - Cheveux KW - Aspect social KW - Western culture. KW - beautification. KW - body hair. KW - femininity. KW - fetishistic pornography. KW - hair removal. KW - hairy women. KW - hirsutism. KW - natural female body. KW - women. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892336 AB - This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has been seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only texts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on 'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' women. The last taboo also questions how and why any particular issue can become defined as 'self-evidently' too silly or too mad to write about. ER -