Hair:yless Masculinities . A Cartography

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Şahinol M., Taşdizen B., Başkavak C. G.

Max Weber Stiftung, Bonn, 2022

  • Yayın Türü: Kitap / Araştırma Kitabı
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Yayınevi: Max Weber Stiftung
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Bonn
  • Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This book presents the selected findings of the project titled “Hair:y_less Masculinities: A Cartography. A Comparison between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey”. It attempts to draw a cartography of men’s hair care with a special emphasis on the somatechnics* of hair removal and hair transplantation norms and practices in Iran and Turkey.

The formulation of ‘Hair:y_less Masculinities’ is inspired by Donna Haraway’s work titled “Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse”2. This constellation is a non-binary of attempt to challenge but also highlight the spectrum of hairy and hairless with the “:”. Simultaneously “_” describes a continuum, but also implies the self-will (Eigensinn) of the body, and hair’s untamable nature.

 

1. Sullivan, Nikki and Samantha Murray. 2009. Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies. London: Taylor & Francis.

2. Haraway, Donna. 1997. Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©Meets OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience. London: Routledge.