Editing Hairstyle (section)

===Gender===
At most times in most cultures, men have worn their hair in styles that are different from women's. American [[Sociology|sociologist]] Rose Weitz wrote that the most widespread cultural rule about hair is that women's hair must differ from men's hair.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ofek|first=Galia|title=Representations of hair in Victorian literature and culture|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-0-7546-6161-0}}</ref> In western societies – particularly the US, UK, and Canada – hair on the head is more strongly tied to feminine gender expression. Long hair is seen as not only feminine but also more sexually appealing for women. Women are also more likely to style their hair in a variety of ways, including using accessories. Meanwhile, men's styles tend to be uniform amongst one another. Masculine gender expressions tend to gear towards [[facial hair]] rather than head hair, likely due to how many men experience [[Hair loss|baldness]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Synnott |first=Anthony |date=September 1987 |title=Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/590695 |journal=The British Journal of Sociology |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=381–413 |doi=10.2307/590695|jstor=590695 }}</ref> An exception is the men and women living in the [[Orinoco|Orinoco-Amazon Basin]], where traditionally both genders have worn their hair cut into a bowl shape. In Western countries in the 1960s, both young men and young women wore their hair long and natural, and since then it has become more common for men to grow their hair.<ref name="sherrow141">{{cite book|last=Sherrow|first=Victoria|title=For Appearance' Sake: The Historical Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, and Grooming|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-1-57356-204-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/forappearancesak00sher/page/141 141]|url=https://archive.org/details/forappearancesak00sher/page/141}}</ref>

During most periods in human history when men and women wore similar hairstyles, as in the 1920s and 1960s, it has generated significant social concern and approbation.<ref>{{cite book|last=DeMello|first=Margo|title=Encyclopedia of body adornment|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-0-313-33695-9|page=141}}</ref>  In the west, groups such as hippies and punks caused outrage for their overlaps in masculine and feminine presentation. Around the 1950s onward, [[Feminism|feminists]] in the US opposed traditionally feminine beauty standards of long hair and little or no [[body hair]]. They argued that those standards take much effort to maintain and were symbols of oppression, though the specifics of what sort of hairstyles or other beauty norms are "oppressive" was highly debated. Typically, many have aimed towards styles which take less maintenance. Meanwhile, there are also non-political examples of challenging gender presentation with performers presenting as [[cross-dressing]] or with [[Androgyny|androgynous]] appearances.<ref name=":0" />