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Contents

Introduction: Necessary Suffering

1. The Hairless Indian:

Savagery and Civility before the Civil War

2. “Chemicals of the Toilette”:

From Homemade Remedies to a New Industrial Order

3. Bearded Women and Dog-Faced Men:

Darwin’s Great Denudation

4. “Smooth, White, Velvety Skin”:

X-Ray Salons and Social Mobility

5. Glandular Trouble:

Sex Hormones and Deviant Hair Growth

6. Unshaven:

“Arm-Pit Feminists” and Women’s Liberation

7. “Cleaning the Basement”:

Labor, Pornography, and Brazilian Waxing

8. Magic Bullets:

Laser Regulation and Elective Medicine

9. “The Next Frontier”:

Genetic Enhancement and the End of Hair

Conclusion: We Are All Plucked

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author