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. B...

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Main Author:	Broch, Trygve B. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	Cultural Sociology
Subjects:	Culture. Ethnology. Clothing and dress-Social aspects. Human body in popular culture. Human body-Social aspects. Sports-Sociological aspects. Sociology of Culture. Sociocultural Anthropology. Fashion and the Body. Sociology of the Body. Sport Sociology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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