![]() ![]() ![]() Roberta Milliken’s topic could lend itself to dense, theory-laden, treatments in the mode of social history, but this book is rigorous in its scholarly standards and is still accessible and readable while being an excellent discussion of a complex concept.Īmbiguous Locks is aimed at a broadly academic audience, but it keeps a balance between theory, analysis, and historical context. Its study often demands equally complex methodologies and research strategies, and this scholarly furniture can intimidate the most determined readers of academic history. The history of sexuality and gender is a vast and complicated concept, particularly in its interconnections with art, literature, law, and the construction of social order. ![]() But considering the historicity of sexual difference, and all the social and cultural relationships that have been built on those differences, it is hard to make that charge of superficiality stick. Gender studies, with its methodological roots in the social sciences, suffers from a reputation for superficiality when applied to questions of the distant past, at least in the eyes of some general readers of history. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012. Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature ![]()
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