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
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