single in kind Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair * Allan Peterkin * Arsenal soft mass Press * $16.

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single in kind Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair

* Allan Peterkin * Arsenal soft mass Press * $16.95

The Bible, you'll quickly find while reading between the walls of Allan Peterkin's facial history, single in kind Thousand Beards, is obsessed with follicles. piece of work shaves his head to start his life recent David's envoys get a humiliating half-beard clip, and of course, in the showstopper, Samson masters an unwanted trim by the insatiable Delilah. In fact, it has been alone in the last century that a beard or lack thereof hasn't been a veiled fore-rank for power, class, and subjugation. Of course, as many gay men--and a certain quantity of lesbians--will tell you, facial hair is just plain hot

There's no better time to talk about the history of beards than after a decade of about of the most explosive experimentation with them to the end of time Peterkin, an psychiatrist and journalist in Toronto, has bring togethered his search for the history, psychology and refinement that surrounds the stuff between your forehead and your Adam's apple. Covering facial hair's appearance everywhere history, in gay culture, and level in the feminist movement, Beards takes a casual direct the eye at the underlying importance of what's now become similar an everyday phenomenon.

one time you start to see the connections between beards and agriculture Peterkin argues, you'll start to realize just in what way much you've grown to recognize--or judge--people depending in succession what's on their face. Hitler's Chaplin-inspired mustache summons dread as much as Confucius's in extent facial locks provide a understanding of wisdom and tranquility. Are we just psychologically diverting our libidinous mechanical value by shaving, trimming, and grooming our beards? Is a gay man's trimmed goatee a emblem of his status as the vagina in a homosexual relationship? Maybe; maybe not.

Beards not at all takes the subject too seriously, in the way that the book is more a whirlwind tour than a breakdown of society's connection with facial produce Peterkin's chuckling tone keeps the main division from ever diving too profoundly into the matter, but he writes with charm, acknowledging the levity in trying to break down similar a superficial (literally) subject.

While undivided Thousand Beards sometimes feels as yet it's regrowing the same first note of the scale facts into different styles chapter after chapter, there's enough substance here for it to be considered more than just five-day stubble

Lopez writes for G4TV

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