TY  - BOOK
AU  - Broch,Trygve B.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Ponytail: Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman 
T2  - Cultural Sociology,
SN  - 9783031207808
AV  - HM621-656 
U1  - 306 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Culture
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human body in popular culture
KW  - Human body
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Sociology of Culture
KW  - Sociocultural Anthropology
KW  - Fashion and the Body
KW  - Sociology of the Body
KW  - Sport Sociology
N1  - 1. Imagining the ponytail -- 2. Object -- 3. Expectations -- 4. Health -- 5. Practicalities -- 6. Movements -- 7. Experience  -- 8. Charge; Open Access
N2  - 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 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20780-8
ER  -