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Back to topConcerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900 (Facialities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Face) (Hardcover)
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Description
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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.
About the Author
Alun Withey is a Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter, UK, and has recently completed a Wellcome Trust-funded research project Do Beards Matter?: Facial Hair, Health and Hygiene in Britain, 1650-1900'.