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PART II: FREEDOMS AND CONSTRAINTS OF LESBIAN BEAUTY NORMS

Even My Hair Won't Grow Straight

Pages 103-105 | Published online: 12 Oct 2008
 

ABSTRACT

The author narrates the experience of growing her hair long after years of keeping it short, and ponders the “the socioculturo-sexual implications of hair growth.” While her lesbian friends respond with curiosity and doubt, the rest of the world,Including her grandmother, wants to see long hair as a return to traditional (straight) femininity.

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