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Of beards and men : the revealing history of facial hair /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oldstone-Moore, Christopher, 1962- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Beards > History.
Mustaches > History.
Men > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: male-pattern history
  • Why do men have beards?
  • In the beginning
  • The classic shave
  • How Jesus got his beard
  • The inner beard
  • The beard Renaissance
  • The shave of reason
  • Beards of the romantic imagination
  • Patriarchs of the industrial age
  • Muscles and mustaches
  • Corporate men of the twentieth century
  • Hair on the left
  • Postmodern men
  • Conclusions.