The ponytail : icon, movement, and the modern (sports)woman / Trygve B. Broch.

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The ponytail : icon, movement, and the modern (sports)woman / Trygve B. Broch.

9783031207808 (electronic bk.)
3031207807 (electronic bk.)
3031207823
9783031207822
9783031207792
3031207793

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

English

1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

10.1007/978-3-031-20780-8 doi

GV706.5 .B76 2023

306.4/83

This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this hairstyles polyvocality and argues that it is a total social phenomenon. By separating his approach from the cultural studies tradition, Broch highlights how hair is imbued with codes, narratives, and myth that allow its wearers to understand, maneuver, and criticize social gender relations in deeply personal ways. Using multiple theories about hair, bodies, myths, and icons, he creates a multidimensional method to show how icons are imitated and used. As women navigate their practical lives, health issues, and gendered expectations, the ponytail materializes their dynamic maneuvering of cultural and social environments. Sporting a ponytailitself an embodiment of movementis filled with a performativity of social movements: a cultural kinetics that is never apolitical. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cultural sociology.

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