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Every Hair a Battle Scar: Buffy Summers' Hair as Narrative Engine, Cultural Icon, and Postfeminist Text

An article that reads Buffy Summers' hair as a serialized visual text linking crisis, recovery, branding, embodiment, and postfeminist agency.

2025 · Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association · Published journal article

  • Buffy
  • postfeminism
  • media culture
  • embodiment
  • visual narrative
  • queer reading

This article reads Buffy Summers’ hair as a serialized visual text. Rather than treating style as decorative surface, it argues that hair records crisis, recovery, labor, and agency through small shifts in appearance across the series.

The essay also links aesthetic continuity to branding constraints and postfeminist negotiations of embodiment, which makes it one of the clearest examples of the archive’s later move into media and cultural analysis.

The journal PDF is openly available. The header uses the name form “Martin LePage,” and the visible bio frames the work through queer theory, ritual studies, and media culture.