Masculinity, Modernity and Male Baldness, c.1880‐1939.
Male baldness was a very common experience but it has rarely been considered by historians of any period or place. This article argues that baldness reveals a precariousness and vanity to masculinity in late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century Britain. Baldness limited men's ability to self‐fash...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 190 - 212 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2023
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