{"id":39166,"date":"2015-12-02T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=39166"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:32:15","slug":"of-beards-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/12\/02\/of-beards-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Of Beards and Men\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Dewey would have been a sympathetic audience for \u201cOf Beards and Men,\u201d a finely detailed, borderline obsessive history by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, who spends more than 300 pages arguing that there\u2019s very little on which facial hair might not come to bear, from politics to religion to revolution. (As for Lincoln, he won \u2014 and grew the beard.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Oldstone-Moore, a lecturer in history at Wright State University (and, at least as recently as his faculty head shot, a beard-wearer), approaches facial hair as an index of the vertiginous roil of masculinity itself. \u201cWhenever masculinity is redefined, facial hairstyles change to suit,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe history of men is literally written on their faces.\u201d In considering the subject, Oldstone-Moore is in good company. The Supreme Court, the Roman Catholic Church, Rousseau and Plutarch have all weighed in on the subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Read the review from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/06\/books\/review\/of-beards-and-men-and-true-style.html\">New York Times Sunday Book Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Dewey would have been a sympathetic audience for \u201cOf Beards and Men,\u201d a finely detailed, borderline obsessive history by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, who spends more than 300 pages arguing that there\u2019s very little on which facial hair might not come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/12\/02\/of-beards-and-men\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":34987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2023,4863,747,715,18,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-faculty","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-research","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39167,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39166\/revisions\/39167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}