The Neck review: A lively history of the neck is full of surprises

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We adorn the neck with jewels and perfumes, and it plays a key role in human courtship rituals

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Kent Dunlap (University of California Press)

The late writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron famously felt bad about her neck. Ephron’s concern, as expressed in her best-known essay

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, was ageing, and the neck in particular as a “dead give-away” of the passage of time. The visibility of the area and “the truth” it exposed was cause, for Ephron, to cover up with turtlenecks and scarves.

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