Faces of Masculinity: Shaving Practices and Popular Exhibitions of 'Hairy Wonders' in Early Twentieth-Century Prague
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91174-8_2" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-91174-8_2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Faces of Masculinity: Shaving Practices and Popular Exhibitions of 'Hairy Wonders' in Early Twentieth-Century Prague
Original language description
This chapter examines the historical dynamics of normative hegemonic masculinity in relation to the management of a clean respectable appearance, namely the male beard. The author suggests that the heightened anxiety about beards and shaving in turn-of-the-century Bohemia is to be understood in the three interrelated contexts of the political and national struggles of the time, the gradual medicalization of personal appearance and the emerging market for beauty products. The figure of 'Lionel', a popular 'hairy freak' in early twentieth-century curiosity exhibitions in Prague, embodied the uncertainties about the normative masculinity of the time and pointed to a general insecurity surrounding male gender performance.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
BEAUTY AND THE NORM: DEBATING STANDARDIZATION IN BODILY APPEARANCE
ISBN
978-3-319-91173-1
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Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
23-44
Publisher name
PALGRAVE
Place of publication
Cham
Event location
Univ Bayreuth
Event date
Apr 6, 2016
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000454623000002