Body Hair : A Cultural Politics Approach

DOI

10.2991/essaeme-15.2015.50How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender study, feminism, Body hair, Female body, Control society.

Abstract

Hair, as one of the most obvious character of biology, has been divided in two categories: the hair on the top of your hair and body hair includes mustache, armpit hair and the hair covers on your leg or chest. Generally, when mass communities talk about the hair on the head, the contexts are always referring to admired and valued [11]. Further more, there are endless poems and songs to express people’s praise of the charming hair, which allowed to be exposed in the public areas. But on the other hand, body hair is being treated like a taboo and animal-like, similar with menstruation, both belong to the impolite topic and cannot be permit to mention on the table, although hair shave is strongly normative across contemporary social cultures. Moreover, the body hair, especially for the woman, is endowed with a signal that involved with: shame, dirty and disgust, the closer women come to talking bout body hair as a verbalization that belongs in the private realm. These ideologies and stereotypes of body hair were gradually shaped during the construction of action culture, As Jeff [16] suggested that, human body can be regarded as a sensation, not only biology, and it also be understood, analyzed and came out means by culture. So, as a unique but prejudiced example, body hair contains various feminisms and poststructuralist theories, I will try to research the philosophies of several gorgeous researcher: Foucault, Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir… to found the essential power which behind this biological foundation in the theories of gender and feminism, and the how power works among these constructions progress of hair significance in visual culture, furthermore, the body under the lens how to shape the public stereotypes.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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