Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Media Studies
Reader 1
T. Kim-Trang Tran
Reader 2
Jesse Lerner
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Rights Information
© 2016 Sabra Stratton
Abstract
The documentary, "Get Out of My Hair, " engages in the dialogue of hair removal and its relationship to femininity, specifically looking at how the media has taught young women to fear the affects of puberty. The piece features ten women between the ages of eleven and twenty-two with ranging demographics who are all brought together by their experiences with their body hair. Applying media effects theory and psychoanalytic theory, this project examines how advertising portrayals of female body depilation contribute to the increase in hair removal and further align the concept of femininity with hairlessness.
Recommended Citation
Stratton, Sabra, "Get Out of My Hair" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 978.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/978
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
