Global Hair, Inequality and Women’s Worth
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This book analyses human hair as a commodity as it traverses different social, cultural and economic contexts. It explores the meanings attributed to hair by the women donating it at Indian temples, and by those wearing it in Finland and South Africa. As an investigation into hair, it continues the long tradition in sociology that turns to small, everyday phenomena to interrogate more abstract, large-scale systems. The circulation and various uses of hair are explored through underlying inequalities connected to neoliberal capitalist processes and colonial continuities. The author unravels the effects of such macrostructures on women’s economic position and social worth, which shape and are shaped by hair.
This volume will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences researching transnationality and consumption, global inequality, beauty and hierarchies of human value. It will also interest anyone wishing to learn about the intricacies of hair and women’s everyday life in the Global North and South.
Riitta Hogbacka is currently an Independent Researcher. She holds a PhD and Adjunct Professorship in Sociology from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her previous publications include Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption: The De-Kinning of First Mothers (Palgrave 2016).
This book analyses human hair as a commodity as it traverses different social, cultural and economic contexts. It explores the meanings attributed to hair by the women donating it at Indian temples, and by those wearing it in Finland and South Africa. As an investigation into hair, it continues the long tradition in sociology that turns to small, everyday phenomena to interrogate more abstract, large-scale systems. The circulation and various uses of hair are explored through underlying inequalities connected to neoliberal capitalist processes and colonial continuities. The author unravels the effects of such macrostructures on women’s economic position and social worth, which shape and are shaped by hair.
This volume will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences researching transnationality and consumption, global inequality, beauty and hierarchies of human value. It will also interest anyone wishing to learn about the intricacies of hair and women’s everyday life in the Global North and South.
Explores inequities in women’s lives through the phenomenon of hair Juxtaposes the experiences of providers and consumers of hair Based on original interviews from India, South Africa and Finland
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“What a brilliant accomplishment! Take something as slight as strands of hair, which most of the potential readers of this book will have thought of as something to be swept off the floor and tossed, and use it to show the connections between gender, race and the global economy. This is what Högbacka has done -- shown us that everything is connected.” (Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Public Health, Women and Gender Studies, City University of New York, USA)
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