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Introduction: revolting bodies or bodies in revolt?
Part one. Revolting bodies
Hairy subjects: imagining versus experiencing body hair rebellion
Body hair battlegrounds: the consequences, reverberations, and promises of women growing their leg, pubic, and underarm hair
Part two. Art and activism
Hairy, not so scary: situating body hair zines and drawings as activism
Expanding the body hair imaginary: photography as social intervention
China's armpit hair contest: body hair resistance as global contagion
Part three. Body hair rebels
Growing a thicker skin: emotional qualities of body hair with women who openly defy body hair norms
"The only opinion that matters is my own": the social regulation of women's body hair
"In the revolution, we will all be hairy": smashing norms, reclaiming feminism, and redrawing the politics of body hair
Epilogue: they are going to be mad at us.
Part one. Revolting bodies
Hairy subjects: imagining versus experiencing body hair rebellion
Body hair battlegrounds: the consequences, reverberations, and promises of women growing their leg, pubic, and underarm hair
Part two. Art and activism
Hairy, not so scary: situating body hair zines and drawings as activism
Expanding the body hair imaginary: photography as social intervention
China's armpit hair contest: body hair resistance as global contagion
Part three. Body hair rebels
Growing a thicker skin: emotional qualities of body hair with women who openly defy body hair norms
"The only opinion that matters is my own": the social regulation of women's body hair
"In the revolution, we will all be hairy": smashing norms, reclaiming feminism, and redrawing the politics of body hair
Epilogue: they are going to be mad at us.