High Heel Paperback / softback
by Summer (Freelance Writer, USA) Brennan
Part of the Object Lessons series
Paperback / softback
Description
Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste MagazineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood.
But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock.
Summer Brennan considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self expression, setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred years in her shoes. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:21/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781501325991
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:21/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501325991
