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Global Hair, Inequality and Women's Worth

Global Hair, Inequality and Women's Worth

Högbacka, Riitta

Hardcover

Series: Consumption and Public Life

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031977386
ISBN13: 9783031977381
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

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.

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