Abstract
Hair is prime material for storytelling. We tell stories about our hair and seek stories about others. From museum exhibitions to children’s literature, hair gets not just storied but also pictured. There are clear patterns to the way hair–the hair on our heads and the hair covering the rest of our bodies–gets pictured for specific audiences. This paper unpacks these patterns across diverse media to think more deeply about what representations of hair communicate about social differences. I discuss visual representations of hair as a problem–having too much or too little, and in the “wrong’ places”–and hair as just right.
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Representations of the Body, Cultural Difference, Children's Literature
Digital Media
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