How to Become a Grown-Up, Disappearing Barber Shop

How to Become a Grown-Up, Disappearing Barber Shop

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 182

  • Jul 31, 2018 1:00 pm
  • 1:32:03 mins

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up (16:05) Kelly Williams Brown is the author of Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps. Growing up is an ever challenging, ever changing endeavor. Each generation deals with it in their own way. Kelly Brown has literally written the book on growing up and shares what she has learned from interviewing people from all walks of life. Disappearing Barber Shop (58:47) Dr. Kristen Barber received her Ph.D. from University of Southern California. She is a professor at Southern Illinois University, her research and teaching focus on issues of gender and social inequalities. She is the author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry. The all-male barbershop is one piece of Americana that is on the decline. Why Barbershops are disappearing and what’s replacing them? Dr. Kristen Barber shares here research.

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