Women and their hair - Seeking power through resistance and accommodation

This article explores how women seek power through both resisting and accom modating mainstream norms for female hair and delineates the strengths and limitations of these strategies. The data help to illuminate the complex ro le the body plays in sustaining and challenging women's subordinate positio n, hog, accommodation and resistance lie buried in everyday activities, the limits of resistance based on the body, and why, accommodation anti resist ance are best viewed as coexisting variables rather than as polar opposites . Finally. these data suggest the importance of defining resistance as acti ons that reject subordination by challenging the ideologies that support su bordination.