How the meaning of women’s hair has shifted over time
“There’s no intrinsic value to hair,” says Elizabeth L Block, the art historian and senior book editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It’s a physical matter that does not stay on our heads forever.” Block’s new book is dedicated to exploring the meaning of hair in post-Civil War America because, while hair itself might have no intrinsic value, for centuries meaning has been assigned to it and it hashellip;
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