The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds

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D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. Sadly, they are reported to be too scared to leave their small village in Pune, central India, for fear of being attacked.

The need for hair removal is a tricky issue for any young woman – but you have to feel for the Sangli sisters, blighted by Werewolf Syndrome.For Pedro suffered from a rare genetic abnormality, now known as hypertrichosis universalis or Ambras syndrome, as a result of which his face and body were covered in thick hair. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History.

I guess one has to console oneself with what little there is in the historical records about this family. The author herself admits details about the Gozales family are sketchy at best, the best surviving record of their existence are several highly detailed portraits, so perhaps not the easiest subject with which to attempt to fill an entire book. In the 19th century, people like Pedro would be exhibited in fairground sideshows as "ape-men" or werewolves. The story of this family connects with every important change of their era—political and religious violence, colonial conquest, new forms of scholarship and science—and also provides insights into the complex relationships between beastliness, monstrosity, and gender in early modern life.It shouldn't be used for commercial use which includes advertising, marketing, promotion, packaging, advertorials, and consumer or merchandising products.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.Marriage is not an option for us, it's not likely to happen, who is going to marry us when hair keeps growing on our faces. Covered from head to foot in thick hair, the Indian siblings are reported to be outcasts in their village in Bangalore due to the rare condition which affects just one in a BILLION. This book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy.