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Carte Ponytail Broch Trygve B. Broch

Ponytail

Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman

Autor: Broch Trygve B. Broch
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Springer Nature B.V.
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the fema...

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Autor
Broch Trygve B. Broch
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2023
Pagini
238
EAN
9783031207815
Enbook ID
43416973
Editura
Springer Nature B.V.
Greutate
318
Dimensiuni
148 x 210

Descriere completă

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.