Geraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, London, UK, and co-author of Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion.

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs.

• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Modern Hair in a Modern Age, Geraldine Biddle-Perry1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Hanna Cody2. Self and Society, Elisha P. Renne (Part 1) and Royce Mahawatte (Part 2)3. Fashion and Adornment, Alice Beard4. Production and Practice, Kim Smith5. Health and Hygiene, Paul R. Deslandes6. Gender and Sexuality, Chelsea Johnson and Kristen Barber7. Race and Ethnicity, Shirley Anne Tate8. Class and Social Status, Geraldine Biddle-Perry9. Cultural Representations, Nathalie KhanNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

Geraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, London, UK, and co-author of Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion.

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs.

• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Modern Hair in a Modern Age, Geraldine Biddle-Perry1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Hanna Cody2. Self and Society, Elisha P. Renne (Part 1) and Royce Mahawatte (Part 2)3. Fashion and Adornment, Alice Beard4. Production and Practice, Kim Smith5. Health and Hygiene, Paul R. Deslandes6. Gender and Sexuality, Chelsea Johnson and Kristen Barber7. Race and Ethnicity, Shirley Anne Tate8. Class and Social Status, Geraldine Biddle-Perry9. Cultural Representations, Nathalie KhanNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

Geraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, London, UK, and co-author of Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion.

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs.

• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Modern Hair in a Modern Age, Geraldine Biddle-Perry1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Hanna Cody2. Self and Society, Elisha P. Renne (Part 1) and Royce Mahawatte (Part 2)3. Fashion and Adornment, Alice Beard4. Production and Practice, Kim Smith5. Health and Hygiene, Paul R. Deslandes6. Gender and Sexuality, Chelsea Johnson and Kristen Barber7. Race and Ethnicity, Shirley Anne Tate8. Class and Social Status, Geraldine Biddle-Perry9. Cultural Representations, Nathalie KhanNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex