GENDER AND BODY HAIR: CONSTRUCTING THE FEMININE WOMAN

By Merran Toerien, S. Wilkinson. 2003

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Museology, Urology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. M. Tiggemann
2. J. K. Thompson
3. S. Hodgson
4. M. Boroughs
5. Guy Cafri
6. S. Wilkinson
7. Merran Toerien
8. Rachel M. Calogero

In Museology

1. J. K. Thompson
2. M. Tiggemann
3. S. Wilkinson
4. Merran Toerien
5. Rachel M. Calogero
6. Tracy Lynn Tylka
7. A. Slater
8. J. Daubenmier

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): “Toerien and Wilkinson (2003) argue that such hairlessness serves to contrast the feminine with the masculine and thereby contributes to the social construction of a “tamed” ,a nd“less than fully adult”, femininity, although it needs to be noted that there is an emerging trend for men to also engage”
• Body Hair Removal: The ‘Mundane’ Production of Normative Femininity (2005, background): “…gender: to have a hairy body is a sign of masculinity; to have a hairless one, a sign of femininity6 (Basow, 1991; Basow & Braman, 1998; Cooper, 1971; Ferrante, 1988; Firth, 1973; Greer, 1970; Hope, 1982; Simpson, 1986; Synnott, 1993; Tiggemann & Kenyon, 1998; Toerien & Wilkinson, 2003, 2004).”
• Male Body Depilation: Prevalence and Associated Features of Body Hair Removal (2005, background): “Heterosexual and gay men (Simpson, 1994; Toerien & Wilkinson, 2003 ), like women, are subject to the effects of exposure to media on their body image (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004).”