Book ID: CBB779377474

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900 (2021)

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Withey, Alun (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 2021
Language: English


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 344

Providing a new understanding of the meanings and motivations behind the wearing of beards, moustaches and whiskers, and their associated practices and practitioners, this book provides an important new long-term perspective on health and the male body in British society. It argues that the male face has long been an important site for the articulation of bodily health and vigour, as well as masculinity. Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings, medical implications and socio-cultural significance from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. Herein, he charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair and shaving - away from 'formal' medicine and practice - towards new concepts of hygiene and personal grooming.

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Authors & Contributors
Abreu, Jean Luiz Neves
Anderson, Warwick H.
Björkman, Maria
Bohler, Danielle
Byrd, W. Michael
Clayton, Linda A.
Journals
Gender and History
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Publishers
Duke University Press
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
McGill-Queen's University Press
New York University Press
Routledge
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Human body
Personal hygiene
Hair
Health
Hygiene
Medicine and gender
People
Brahe, Tycho
Lanesssan, Jean Marie Antoine de
Louis XIV, King of France
Pastrana, Julia
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany
Sokolov, Ivan Matveevich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
20th century
16th century
Places
China
France
United States
Brazil
Great Britain
Philippines
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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