When boys’ body hair start to grow
By Marie-Pierre Julien
English
Anthropologists and psychoanalysts have analyzed pilosity from a symbolist perspective. Recent researches focus on practices and their numerous norms. This article concerns 9-13 boys’ body hair. Their body technics related to hair, material culture, self technics, age and gender categorizations, talks with pairs and adults about are scrutinized.
Keywords
- pilosity
- boys
- body
- life cycle
- gender