The ponytail : icon, movement, and the modern (sports)woman / Trygve B. Broch.
2023
GV706.5 .B76 2023
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Title
The ponytail : icon, movement, and the modern (sports)woman / Trygve B. Broch.
Author
Broch, Trygve B., author.
ISBN
9783031207808 (electronic bk.)
3031207807 (electronic bk.)
3031207823
9783031207822
9783031207792
3031207793
3031207807 (electronic bk.)
3031207823
9783031207822
9783031207792
3031207793
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-20780-8 doi
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GV706.5 .B76 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4/83
Summary
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. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Open access.
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text file PDF
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2023).
Series
Cultural sociology.
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PONYTAIL.
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Table of Contents
1. Imagining the ponytail
2. Object
3. Expectations
4. Health
5. Practicalities
6. Movements
7. Experience
8. Charge.
2. Object
3. Expectations
4. Health
5. Practicalities
6. Movements
7. Experience
8. Charge.