Concerning beards : facial hair, health and practice in England 1650-1900 / Alun Withey.

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"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. Withey charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair, and shaving - away from '...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Facialities.
Main Author: Withey, Alun (Author)
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
Series:Facialities.
Subjects:
Beards > Social aspects > England > History.
Shaving > Social aspects > England > History.
England.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Facial hair, health and the body, c.1650-1750
  • The faces of politeness : facial hair, masculinity and culture in the long eighteenth century
  • The dominion of the beard, c.1850-1900
  • The medical practices and practitioners of shaving in early modern Britain
  • Economies of shaving, c.1650-1750
  • Refining the face : auto- pogonotomy and self-styling, 1750-1900
  • Hairs and graces : barbers, hairdressers and shaving, c.1750-1900
  • The bearded classes : facial hair and social status, 1700-1900
  • Cleanse, cut and control : the institutional history of facial Hair
  • The commodification of shaving, 1650-1850
  • Selling shaving in the age of the beard : the market for shaving products, c.1850-1890
  • Conclusion.