Women’s hair has been attributed qualities of immense sexual power, which is often considered as both a threat and an allure – most often an alluring threat. I also highlight the divergences in representations of power instilled in these images. In so doing, I examine the ways in which these various representations of women’s hair are comparable, in terms of their associations with youthful and beautiful femininity, the idea of the beautiful woman as a part of nature, and, most notably, the sexual connotations ascribed to women’s hair. I examine Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting, La Ghirlandata (1873) as an example of the idealised and sexualised depiction of red-haired women during the Victorian era and then compare this to later depictions of women’s hair in stills and the poster from the film, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tykwer, 2006). In this essay, I address the historic, symbolic associations of women’s hair, with particular reference to the Victorian era and re-imaginings of similar notions in the contemporary. Subject to the rigorous policing of religions, schools and prisons across diverse countries, women’s hair has been imbued with great power. Its representation aligns it with symbolic notions of femininity, female sexuality and all the ambivalent associations that various societies have with these notions. Women’s hair has been a prominent feature of many paintings, folktales, films and literary works over the centuries.
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Novelist, short story writer, journalist, librarianĪutobiography, autofiction, Bildungsroman, collaborative fiction, docudrama, dystopia, erotic literature, essay, fantasy, historical novel, metafiction, satire, science fiction Fundulea, Călărași County, Romanian People's Republic |