New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair

1. Introduction
Alun Withey, Jennifer Evans

Part I. (Re)Building the Beard?

2. Social Science, Gender Theory and the History of Hair
Christopher Oldstone-Moore

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

4. Hair, Beards and the Fashioning of English Manhood in Early Modern Travel Texts
Eleanor Rycroft

5. Beardless Young Men? Facial Hair and the Construction of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Self-Portraits
M. Victoria Alonso Cabezas

6. Making Facial Hair Modern: Shaving and Hirsuteness in Post-war Britain
Mark Anderson

7. A Tiny Cloak of Privilege: Facial Hair and Story Telling
Helen Casey

Part II. Masculinity and the Moustache

8. Combing Masculine Identity in the Age of the Moustache, 1860–1900
Sharon Twickler

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

Part III. Feminine Facial Hair and Feminine Responses to Facial Hair

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

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

Nyckelord: History, Cultural History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Gender Studies, Modern History