Concerning Beards
Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900
Series: Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 25 August 2022
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350213012
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 229x150x18 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 bw illus 432
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Long description:
This Open Access book provides a new understanding of the meanings and motivations behind the wearing of beards, moustaches and whiskers, and their associated practices and practitioners. Concerning Beards offers an important new long-term perspective on health and the male body in British society. It argues that the male face has long been an important site for the articulation of bodily health and vigour, as well as masculinity.
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. Herein, he charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair and shaving - away from 'formal' medicine and practice - towards new concepts of hygiene and personal grooming.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
This book is part of the Facialities series, which explores the social, cultural and political significance of the face in human history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section One - Facial Hair, Health and Medicine
2. Medical Conceptions of Facial Hair, c. 1650-1750
3. The Faces of Politeness: Beards and Beardlessness in the Eighteenth Century
4. The Imperial Beard, c. 1850-1900
Section Two - The Practice and Practices of Shaving
5. Barbers and Barbershops in Early Modern Britain
6. Shaving and Being Shaved, c.1600-1750
7. Barbering in Decline? Barbershops and Shaving, 1745-1900
Section Three - Facial Hair, Class and Hegemony
8. The Bearded Classes: Facial Hair and Social Status, 1700-1900
9. Cleanse and Control: The Institutional History of Facial Hair, c. 1700-1900
Section Four - The Marketplace for Shaving
10. The Material Culture of Shaving, 1650-1750
11. The 'Outward Gentlemen': Marketing Shaving Products, c. 1750-1850
12. Selling Shaving in the Age of the Beard: Men's Personal Grooming, c. 1850-1900
Index
Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900
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