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dc.contributor.authorBroch, Trygve B.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-20T16:53:47Z
dc.date.available2023-01-20T16:53:47Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20230120_9783031207808_20
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60802
dc.description.abstractThis 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 hairstyle’s 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 ponytail—itself an embodiment of movement—is filled with a performativity of social movements: a cultural kinetics that is never apolitical.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCultural Sociology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communitiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular cultureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBS Sociology: sport and leisureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::S Sports and Active outdoor recreationen_US
dc.subject.otherCultural Sociology
dc.subject.otherMateriality
dc.subject.otherBodies
dc.subject.otherGender
dc.subject.otherSport
dc.subject.otherEmbodiment
dc.subject.otherSport Sociology
dc.subject.otherFashion
dc.titleThe Ponytail
dc.title.alternativeIcon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-20780-8
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedBy4a0016b2-0e6d-4364-985a-94380a582a53
oapen.relation.isbn9783031207808
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages222
oapen.place.publicationCham
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