Document Type
Social Sciences
Date
2018
Submission Date
January 2019
Abstract
“It is quite obvious that the shaving of heads fundamentally damages the physical and moral integrity of those people for whom it was intended,” Fabrice Virgili asserts in his book Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France (135). For centuries, hair has been held as a standard of feminine beauty, therefore a lack of it has a long and storied history as well. Records of head shaving as a form of punishment for women can be traced back to Ancient Greek and Roman times. Shaving a woman’s head was a sign of sin and shame, and stripped them of their femininity and identity.
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Auctus
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25886/zdbp-xa86
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Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Mass Communication Commons