It's not just Katy Perry's "breakup haircut." A woman's hair is always symbolic of something, whether it's an attitude towards femininity or a power play.

With the help of a French hairdresser, Marie Antoinette embarked on what initially appeared to be a happily fated alliance between the Habsburgs and the Bourbons.

The decline of barbershops is not a sign of a disintegrating culture of manhood, but rather a transformation of masculinity.

The Afro became a big money maker as it became more popular. Did that transformation rob the style of its political meaning?