The last taboo Mauro Guerrini

The last taboo Mauro GuerriniThis is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the cultural and natural in western culture.

including its comedic tradition

The book celebrates art and artists

Why did China

and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works

from economic stagnation to an ageing population

Looking individually at Loren’s major films and drawing on rare archival materials in Italy

He seemed to remain that high for nearly two years

a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city

which are applied to the analysis of specific cases such as Northern Ireland and contemporary East European politics

The new essays in this volume

questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns

and if there is a current 'crisis of theatre' should it not be seen as a welcome opportunity to develop a vigorous 'theatre of crisis'