Body Hair Removal: The ‘Mundane’ Production of Normative Femininity

By Merran Toerien, S. Wilkinson, P. Choi. 2005

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Urology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. S. Hodgson
2. Victoria Clarke
3. Virginia Braun
4. M. Tiggemann
5. A. Slater
6. Bonnie Moradi
7. Rachel M. Calogero
8. Janet S. Hyde

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Victoria Clarke
2. Virginia Braun
3. M. Tiggemann

In Urology

1. S. Hodgson
2. M. Tiggemann

Citations in the corpus

• The Hairlessness Norm Extended: Reasons for and Predictors of Women’s Body Hair Removal at Different Body Sites (2008, background): “By far the majority of women in the USA (Basow 1991), UK (Toerien et al. 2005) and Australia (Tiggemann and Kenyon 1998; Tiggemann and Lewis 2004) remove their leg and underarm hair.”
• “It Shouldn’t Stick Out from Your Bikini at the Beach” (2013, background): “The level of bikini-line removal ranges from 50% to 100% across studies but is usually at higher end of this range (Bercaw-Pratt et al., 2011; Herbenick, Schick, Reece, Sanders, & Fortenberry, 2010; Riddell et al., 2010; Rigakos, 2010; Tiggemann & Hodgson, 2008; Toerien et al., 2005; Weigle, 2009).”