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High Heel
- Author
- Summer Brennan
- Narrator
- Allyson Ryan
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 30 July 2019
- Run Time
- 4 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things, published in partnership with an essay series in the Atlantic.
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Details
- Author
- Summer Brennan
- Narrator
- Allyson Ryan
- Duration
- 4 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 July 2019
- ISBN
- 9781630154394
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology, Society and culture: general
Synopsis
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 a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things, published in partnership with an essay series in the Atlantic.
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