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Poster short abstract:

In my poster, I present my PhD. research. The study examines the change in attitudes towards women's baldness in Finland and how women have experienced their hairlessness in the public debate. The poster shows how I will implement my study, and it also presents some preliminary results.

Poster long abstract:

In western culture, women's hairlessness is the desired matter from every part of the women's body except the head. In other words, the idea that a real woman has hair is deeply rooted in our culture. The women's baldness is at the core of my PhD. thesis, in which I study how it has been experienced and understood in Finnish society and culture. I ask, for instance, how hairlessness affect women's daily lives? How has it manifested in our society at different times? How gender define the experience of hairlessness? What stereotypes has our culture and society created for women's hairlessness?

In my poster, I present my on-going PhD. project in more detail. The poster demonstrates how I investigate the changes in attitudes towards women's baldness and how the baldness has been experienced by hairless women and public discussion. It also shows how I will implement my study. In addition to this, the poster presents some of my discoveries and preliminary results.

The poster fits excellently into SIEF2021 theme "Bodies" that studies bodies as arenas of compliance and resistance as well as contemplate, for instance, what "norms" and "rules" pertain and how are they challenged, and by whom?

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