| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 153 words from this article are provided below; about 338 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America. By Helen Sheumaker. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvi, 250 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4014-6.)

Scholars of nineteenth-century American social and cultural history are bound to have come across references to watch chains and bracelets made of loved ones' hair, or stumbled upon ribbon-tied ringlets of children, friends, and lovers in scrapbooks and other mementoes. With vague mixed feelings of sentiment and queasiness, but little understanding, we move on. Helen Sheumaker provides a service by exploring the meaning of this "hairwork." She claims that the exchange of items made of hair allowed Americans to display sentiment while also engaging in the market. This was important as the latter challenged the authenticity supposedly required to pull off middle-class status-affirming displays of feeling. Sheumaker establishes the importance of hairwork and connects it with other scholars' work on the relationship between sentimentalism and consumption.

. . .

There are about 338 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.