New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Social Science, Gender Theory and the History of Hair

Chapter 3 ‘The Very Head and Front of My Offending’: Beards, Portraiture and Self-Presentation in Early Modern England

Chapter 4 Hair, Beards and the Fashioning of English Manhood in Early Modern Travel Texts

Chapter 5 Beardless Young Men? Facial Hair and the Construction of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Self-Portraits

Chapter 6 Making Facial Hair Modern: Shaving and Hirsuteness in Post-war Britain

Chapter 7 A Tiny Cloak of Privilege: Facial Hair and Story Telling

Chapter 8 Combing Masculine Identity in the Age of the Moustache, 1860–1900

Chapter 9 Whiskers at War: Moustaches, Masculinity and the Military in Twentieth-Century Britain

Chapter 10 ‘We’ll Imagine, Madam, You Have a Beard’: Beards and Early Female Playwrights

Chapter 11 Shades of Facial Hairiness at the French Court: The Case of Marie-Joséphine of Savoy, Countess of Provence