ABSTRACT
Hair as an indicator of liberation: lesbian biographical paths by Sophie Devineau and Célia Laplace. A study of French self-identified lesbians that exposes society’s coercive nature with a social group possessing a particularly gender-norm consciousness of how women’s presentations are standardised and oversimplified. Lesbians’ biographical histories demonstrate that hair is still a major factor in the search for self-presentation and the object of non-negligible aesthetic efforts. Hair is the instrument enacting the subversion of rigid gender codes. Lesbians are constantly working to invent a liberating doctrine, but the result may end up being coercive in some ways and producing new discrimination against others.
