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Big Hair: A Journey into the Transformation of Self by Grant McCracken - "Most people in modern Western society are obsessed with hair: hair they have, hair they don't, hair they don't want (there), the latest to-do about the do of the latest star or starlet--and yet there have been virtually no in-depth studies of hair in this culture. McCracken, a curator of ethnology, has written an insightful study of how Westerners redefine themselves by defining and redefining their 'dos, dont's, and dyes, and the fetishistic fascination with hair styles of the rich and famous. Although written primarily about women's hair, and in particular, blond hair, my entire household--men and women alike--learned a great deal from the in-depth analyses of these dead strands of protein extruding from tiny pores on our heads which nonetheless have extraordinary power in determining status and even wealth."
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Bad Hair by James Smith - "Mullets, bouffants, rattails, beehives, bobs gone wrong, and styles so hideous they have no name are just some of the follicular atrocities to have emerged from barber shops and beauty salons over the last thirty years. Here, collected in book form for the first-and possibly last-time, is the International Bad Hair Hall of Fame, culled from the windows of hairdressers around the world. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but some pictures just speak the same word a thousand times: BAD."
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Blonde Like Me: The Roots of the Blonde Myth in Our Culture by Natalia Ilyin - "... Natalia Ilyin reaches for the peroxide bottle to highlight our sometimes dark fascination with the light-haired... Blonde Like Me is a memoir masquerading as, or braided with, a clever critique of the obsession with blondeness... A wisecracking writer and smart scholar, often a pleasure to read, Ilyin could have taken her ideas further. Maybe she didn't want to try the reader's patience with too much academic analysis and organization...Still, it's about time somebody peeled the foil off our obsession with blonde and blonder, and Blonde Like Me does."
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Fashions in Hair: The 1st 5,000 Years by Richard Corson - "This is a wonderfull book that details hair fashions for the past five thousand years. A must for anyone doing stage productions. Lots of well done drawings with both front and rear views. For the stage hair stylist this book will be the one you turn to over and over again."
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Hair Heroes by Michael Gordon - "Hair Heroes, a new book by Michael Gordon, founder and owner of Bumble and bumble, celebrates true legends in hairdressing as heroic figures. "It's important to recognize those who have raised the bar and forced hairdressers who followed to reach higher and achieve more," says Gordon. "Ours is an artisan craft but for reasons I do not understand we don't pay homage to the artists who have preceded us." Hair Heroes features interviews with twelve masters of modern hairdressing: Kenneth, who Jacqueline Kennedy trusted with her hairstyle and her secrets; Gene Shacove, the inspiration for the film Shampoo; Alexandre, the charming friend of Jean Cocteau and stylist to all of France's elite; Luis Llongueras, who put the curl in Salvador Dali's mustache; Aldo Coppola, the highly successful master of Italian hairdressing; Sam Lapin, the father of modern hair color who turned Norma Jean blonde; Christiaan, the session stylist who was known to lop off the hair of unsuspecting fashion editors when they weren't looking; Irma Kusely, who was responsible for Lucille Ball's signature red hair; Sydney Guilaroff, who was the first stylist to demand on screen credit raising the recognition of the profession and who has held more screen credits than any leading actor; Leonard Lewis, London's swinging seventies man of the hour; Annie Humphreys, a famed colorist who invented the first wash-and-wear perm; Vidal Sassoon, who started a revolution and changed the way we all cut hair today."
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Hair in African Art and Culture by Roy Sieber (Editor), Frank Herreman (Editor) - "In the West, hairstyle choices range from the purely functional to the complex fashion statement. In the African continent their significance is far greater. Hair can be an indicator of age, authority, social status, and religious affiliation, as well as part of a long tradition of aesthetic adornment or a strictly contemporary style statement. In some cultures hair itself is used as a potent substabce with supernatural power."
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Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures by Alf Hiltebeitel (Editor), Barbara D. Miller (Editor), Gananat Obeyesekere, Gananath Obeyesekere - "Hair: Its power and meaning in Asian cultures was inspired by an after-dinner discussion between some high powered Asian scholars and, though some of the essays are very sober, some trace of stimulating after-dinner conversation persists in Ganana th Obeyesekere's foreword, with its "root meanings" and "cultural grammars' that are 'loose', like hair itself."
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Hair: Public, Political, Extremely Personal by Diane Simon - "The prevalence of the expression "having a bad hair day" is just one of myriad indicators of how important hair is to our sense of well-being. Chronically "bad" hair, which most often means coarse and frizzy, such as that possessed by Simon herself, has unflattering connotations of primitiveness. This prejudice has greatly impacted African Americans, and Simon explores the racial connotations of hair with admirable candor and sly hipness. Sexism, religious intolerance, politics, and fashion also come into play over the course of this illuminating history. Simon assesses the rage for bobbed hair in the 1920s, bouffants in the 1950s, and the long and liberated hippie hair and Afros of the 1960s. Moving back and forth in time and across oceans, she considers hair-related religious precepts, various attitudes toward body hair and baldness, grooming techniques mild and terrorizing, and all the tangled and ever-evolving perceptions that define our notions of beauty and sex appeal, conformity and rebellion, positive self-images and chronic dissatisfaction."
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Lori L. Tharps, Ayana D. Byrd - "HAIR STORY is an historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever- changing state of Black hair from 15th century Africa to the present day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular."
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Hairstyles and Fashion: A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920 (Dress, Body, Culture) by Steven Zdatny (Editor) - "Steven Zdatny has reigned as this country’s most quoted expert on 'the aesthetics and politics of hair."
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The History of Hair: Fashion and Fantasy Down the Ages by Robin Bryer - "If you are interested in hairstyles you will like this book; if you are interested in art, hairstyles and the ever-chaging image of people, you will LOVE this book! The first chapter starts us off in Ancient Egypt and ends in the Modern Age with everything covered in-between: the Romans, Medieval, Renaissance, Pilgrims, Restoration, the Revolution, Victorian and Edwardian. This book also has beautiful full-colour photos of some of the best works of art all in it's 8x10 dimensions."
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The History of Lesbian Hair: And Other Tales of Bent Life in a Straight World by Mary Dugger - "With the rise of violence against gay people, the "don't ask, don't tell" military policy and the homophobic rhetoric of the right-wing, sometimes there doesn't seem to be very much fun about gay and lesbian life. That is, until you read Mary Dugger's The History of Lesbian Hair. Dugger has a sense of humor that knows no boundaries -- from instructions to how to build you own lesbian (complete with Birkinstocks) to how to collect right-wing demagogue trading cards to how all lesbian haircuts have evolved from Patsy Cline's original 1950s do -- she is unafraid of poking fun at everyone from right-wing hate-mongering to the dyke in the bar with a bad attitude. Dugger has a sense of humor, and she knows how to use it."
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The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods by Mark Larson, Barney Hoskyns, Maria Burgaleta Larson (Illustrator) - "There's nothing quite as bad as a bad haircut. And perhaps the worst of all is the cut we call the mullet." "So wrote the Beastie Boys in Grand Royal magazine, coining a phrase that has now entered into the pop culture lexicon. The mullet is a style short on the sides, long in the back, and comically awful. Popular in the 1980s, rapidly entering the zeitgeist and becoming THE hairstyle to sport, the mullet graced such diverse celebrities as Mel Gibson, Patrick Swayze, Michael Bolton, and Hulk Hogan. Most recently, the mullet has been in unfashionable decline, only the stubborn or the unaware remain mullet-heads-often brazenly combining the cut with skinny ties and tight-fitting grey polyester suits. And who knows, the mullet just might--heaven forbid--find its way onto the fashion pages once again. In this fully-illustrated, hilrious book, Barney Hoskyns and Mark Larson examine all areas of the phenomenon, looking at pop star mullets, football mullets, country western mullets, mullets in advertising, great mullets throughout history, and much more."
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On Blondes by Joanna Pitman - "Number of natural blondes in America: 1 in 20. Number of American females who dye their hair blonde: 1 in 3. Blondeness became a prejudice in the Dark Ages, an obsession in the Renaissance, a mystique in Elizabethan England, a mythical fear in the nineteenth century, an ideology in the 1930s, a sexual invitation in the 1950s, and a doctrine of faith by the end of the twentieth century. With its powerful imagery of wealth, light, youth, and vitality, built up over thousands of years, it has woven itself into the most popular materials of the imagination. In art and literature, in history and popular culture, blonde has never been a mere color. For two and a half thousand years, it has been a blazing signal in code, signifying beauty, power, and status. From Greek prostitutes mimicking the golden haired Aphrodite, to the Californian beach babe; from pigeon dung and saffron dyes to L'Oreal-because you're worth it-Joanna Pitman unveils the lengths to which women will go to become blonde. We watch while the blonde as erotic symbol, saintly virgin, or racial elite waxes and wanes throughout the ages, but never disappears. Why is it that blondes rose to prominence in Hollywood and in Nazi Germany at the same time? Why do young Japanese women today want to be blonde? By looking at the world through the eyes of famous and infamous blondes and their admirers, we are drawn into an intriguing portrait of society. Weaving a story rich in drama, mystery, triumph, deception, disaster and curiosity, Joanna Pitman effortlessly combines the wealth of her knowledge with a sharp and clear-sighted view of the power of the blonde throughout the ages."
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The Redhead Encyclopedia by Stephen Douglas - "Are redheads cool or what? It's taken over ten years of research to find the facts and information that I present in this book - information that defines the redhead culture - without really identifying it. I didn't want to write a book that just listed names of redhead celebrities and famous people, although there are names of hundreds in the book. More interesting to me were the surveys and studies that show how redheads are perceived by others, and how they perceive themselves. I was also fascinated to find all the strange historical data concerning redheads, with contradicting folklore and fables. I'm proud to be a redhead myself, and I invite every redhead and redhead admirer to get The Redhead Encyclopedia to discover for themselves a truckload of neat information and little-known secrets about the flame-haired."
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Splitting Hairs: The Bad Days, Bald Spots, and Highlights of Hair Anxiety by Mimi Pond - "From glorious tresses to embarrassing messes, bouffants to comb-overs, and rugs to plugs, here's a hilarious look at hair that will leave yours standing on end! With her razor-sharp wit, Mimi Pond offers hair-raising glimpses of barbershop and beauty parlor disasters, presents profiles of hairdressers from heaven and hell, and recaps famous hair moments in film and television. She chronicles the major hair trends of the twentieth century and their impact on history providing insight into how hair has built financial empires and ruined political campaigns. To top it off, she provides tips and snippets of information on such topics as: Hair and religion: The higher the hair, the closer to God; Breaking up is hard to do: Good excuses when you change hairdressers; Curl up and die: Weaves, cellophaning, green hair, oxidation, and other hair-coloring mysteries; Hair as a political statement, or fifty ways to bug your mother; and The myth of the blonde and where it began."
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