Introduction : thinking about hair / Geraldine Biddle-Perry And Sarah Cheang -- Fashionable hair in the eighteenth century : theatricality and display / Louisa Cross -- Roots : hair and race / Sarah Cheang -- Revealing and concealing : notes and observations on eroticism and female pubic hair / Jack Sargeant -- From style to place : the emergence of the hair salon in the twentieth century / Kim Smith -- The big shave : fashions in modern male facial hair / Dene October -- Hair and male (homo) sexuality : up top and down below / Shaun Cole -- Hair, gender and looking / Geraldine Biddle-Perry -- Men's facial hair in Islam : a matter of interpretation / Faegheh Shirazi -- Resounding power of the afro comb / Carol Tulloch -- Concerning blondeness : gender, ethnicity, spectacle and footballers' waves / Pamela Church-Gibson -- Hair, devotion and trade in India / Eiluned Edwards -- Hairpieces : hair, identity and memory in the work of Mona Hatoum / Leila McKellar -- Hair without a head : disembodiment and the uncanny / Janice Miller -- Hair and fashioned femininity in two nineteenth-century novels / Royce Mahawatte -- Hair control : the feminine 'disciplined head' / Thom Hecht -- Hair-'dressing' in desperate housewives : narration, characterisation, and the pleasures of reading hair / Rachel Velody -- Hair styling in the fashion magazine Nova in the 1970s / Alice Beard -- Conclusion : hair and human identity / Sarah Cheang and Geraldine Biddle-Perry.