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How we handle our body hair says as much about us as how we dress. On this week’s This is Critical, Rebecca Herzig, professor and author of Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, explores the culture of shaving, waxing, plucking—and just letting it be.

Read an excerpt below and listen to the whole episode here.

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