Abstract
The mundane routines of growing, trimming, removing and refusing
to remove body hair are connected to the ways of conforming to
and resisting norms pertaining to gender, sexuality and desirability.
This is especially the case with bodies coded as female. This article
explores the natureculture of body hair, with a focus on pubes. We
move from distinctions drawn in cultural history to the fashions, norms
and modes of resistance associated with pubic hair. Our focus lies
especially on binary divisions within which hair has been seen to
mark boundaries between the human and the animal, the clean and
the filthy, the modest and the obscene, the normal and the abnormal,
often in highly paradoxical ways.
to remove body hair are connected to the ways of conforming to
and resisting norms pertaining to gender, sexuality and desirability.
This is especially the case with bodies coded as female. This article
explores the natureculture of body hair, with a focus on pubes. We
move from distinctions drawn in cultural history to the fashions, norms
and modes of resistance associated with pubic hair. Our focus lies
especially on binary divisions within which hair has been seen to
mark boundaries between the human and the animal, the clean and
the filthy, the modest and the obscene, the normal and the abnormal,
often in highly paradoxical ways.
| Original language | Finnish |
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| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | SQS - Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen seuran lehti |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 24 Sept 2022 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |