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Beard fetish in early modern England : sex, gender, and registers of value
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Focusing on representation of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple regist...
Focusing on representation of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers.
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- Creator
- Mark Albert Johnston
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781409405429, 1409405427, 9781409435693, 1409435695
- OCLC
- ocn723141946
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-290) and index.
- Introduction -- Fetish and value -- Beard value and manhood -- The functional value of beardless boys -- Re-evaluating bearded women -- Devaluing the beard: half beards and hermaphrodites -- Epilogue: transcending value
Subjects
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Beards in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Fetishism in literature.
- Values in literature.
- Beards -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Beards -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century.