013 - Shaving: The men behind the beauty standard

On today's episode we disucss the origins of shaving in the Western world, and what its relevance is to our modern beauty standard of female hairlessness. Alongside this, we examine the impact of making hairlessness the norm and how this has changed across cultures and eras.

Among other topics, we explore:

• how body hair has become a symbol of feminism and not femininity
• the first razors advertised for women and its link to capitalist motives
• different body hair standards across cultures
• the paedophilic undertones of the standard
• the influence of advertising on culture
• modern femininity as a performance

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