Hairy tales and gender troubles: Conceptualizing haircutting as an act of feminist resistance
通过三位作者的自我民族志反思，探讨理发作为女性主义抵抗行为如何挑战社会和组织中的性别规范，揭示毛发对性别身体的意义，并扩展女性主义抵抗的理解至日常实践。
This paper discusses the significance of hair as a gendered symbol, particularly exploring the act of haircutting as a form of feminist resistance against the cisgender and heteronormative norms shaping much of social and organizational life. It does so by employing the autoethnographic reflections of the three authors, revealing embodied and social implications of haircutting decisions for different intersectional bodies. By shedding light on hair, a highly understudied aspect of gendered embodiment, this paper contributes to discussions on gendered (dis)embodiment – namely hair-policing organizational norms and responses to these – and feminist resistance in organizations, conceptualizing haircutting as a performative act of feminist resistance rooted in solidarity and relationality across intersectional differences. Doing so, the paper expands the understanding of feminist resistance beyond organized protest to everyday embodied practices. Methodologically, it surfaces collaborative writing as a feminist relational process, fostering solidarity across different intersectional and vulnerable bodies.