Date of Award
Fall 2013
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Terms of Use
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History Department
First Advisor
Farid Azfar
Second Advisor
Bruce Dorsey
Abstract
This paper analyzes three seventeenth century English ballads in order to understand the complex factors that contributed to the views and understandings surrounding hair. It was around this time that the view of men and women’s bodies as inversions of each other was beginning to change. The construction of hair in the examined ballads supports the presence of this change.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Holly , '14, "Let Not a Red Come in Thy Bed: Construction of Hair in 17th Century England" (2013). Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards. 545.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/theses/545