The Ponytail Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman

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 sep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Broch, Trygve B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Cultural Sociology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Imagining the ponytail
  • 2. Object
  • 3. Expectations
  • 4. Health
  • 5. Practicalities
  • 6. Movements
  • 7. Experience
  • 8. Charge