Brennan Summer (Freelance Writer Usa) - High Heel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery 29 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object 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.
Title: High Heel
Author(s): Brennan Summer (Freelance Writer Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501325991
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 3/21/2019
Series: Object Lessons
Category: Media Studies