Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred Olid Bel
Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred Olid Bel Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the…
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Hairless: Breaking the Vicious Circle of Hair Removal, Submission and Self-Hatred Olid Bel
Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. All kinds of cosmetics are sold to achieve the desired effect of localized luxuriance. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes (not too sparse).
Hair is no longer a sign of joy but a battleground of cosmetic surgery.In this short book, the Catalan writer Bel Olid draws on her own experience to dismantle preconceived ideas about the supposed benefits of waxing and shaving and to lay bare the social penalties that are meted out to any woman who allows their body hair to grow. At the same time, the industry of removing hair everywhere else on the body advances relentlessly. With clarity and courage she exposes the contradictions and hidden costs of
Breaking the Vicious Circle