[ecrea] New Book: Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair: Crown of Glory and Shame

New Book Announcement

*__**_Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair: Crown of Glory and 
Shame_*

edited by Sigal Barak-Brandes & Amit Kama (2018). Routledge.

___https://www.routledge.com/Feminist-Interrogations-of-Womens-Head-Hair-Crown-of-Glory-and-Shame/Barak-Brandes-Kama/p/book/9781138581418_

Hair constitutes a neglected means of***symbolic communication*: it 
relays vital information about one's identity, taste, and status. 
Cultures, societies, and religions ascribe certain modes of hair styling 
and shearing. Hair is thus a construct of cultural and social dictates. 
This is particularly pertinent to women and girls whose hair is 
considered to be both a source and an expression of glory and 
shame.*//**/Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair: Crown of Glory 
and Shame/*brings new focus to this underrepresented topic through its 
intersections with contemporary socio-cultural contexts within the 
larger frame of feminist scholarship.

The anthology contains chapters by scholars from a wide range of 
disciplines who investigate private and public meanings associated with 
female head hair, problematizing our assumptions about its role and 
implications in the 21st Century. Readers are invited to reflect on the 
use of hair in popular culture, such as children’s television and pop 
album artwork, as well as in work by women artists. Studies examine the 
lived experiences of women from a range of backgrounds and histories, 
including curly-haired women in Israel, African American women during 
the American Civil Rights Movements and self-identified lesbians in 
France. Other essays interrogate the connotations of women’s head hair 
in relation to body image, religion and aging.

*//**/Feminist Interrogations of Women's Head Hair: Crown of Glory and 
Shame/*brings together cultural discourses and the lived experiences of 
women, across time and place, to reveal the complex and ever-evolving 
significance of women's hair. It is an important contribution to the 
critical feminist thought in media studies, fashion studies, African 
American studies, queer theory, gender studies, gerontology, and 
cultural studies.

***Sigal Barak-Brandes*, PhD, is alecturer at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

***Amit Kama*, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of 
Communication, Yezreel Valley Academic College, Israel.

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