Status Updates From Plucked: A History of Hair ...

Bonito y macabro paseo sobre la imposición de la modificación corporal chino herramienta de opresión y control

"For both advocates and critics, unshaven armpits and legs served as a symbolic reminder of women's labor—in this case, the repetitive, expensive, and often invisible labor of maintaining hair-free flesh. The question whether such efforts were a trivial nuisance...or the very embodiment of women's oppression...would shape discussions of women's bodily choices for decades to come [after the 1970s]" (118-119).

Alright I’m locking in this time

"Even as fashion and custom allowed some women unprecedented freedom of movement, new forms of self-regulation and constraint were coming into being. In a remarkably short time...'body hair became disgusting' to middle-class American women, its removal a way 'to separate oneself from cruder people, lower class, and immigrant'" (79.)

seriously rethinking the laser hair treatment i want to get …..

with summer coming and all, this is a good reminder for me to put. the razor. down.