This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair, which has b
een seen until now as too trivial, ridiculous or revolting to write about. Even
feminist writers or researchers on the body have found remarkably little to say
about body hair, usually ignoring it completely. It would appear that the only t
exts to elaborate on body hair are guides on how to remove it, medical texts on
'hirsutism', or fetishistic pornography on 'hairy' women.
