EPISODE · Jul 30, 2019 · 4H 14M
High Heel (By Summer Brennan)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: High Heel Author: Summer Brennan Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 30, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 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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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: High Heel Author: Summer Brennan Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 30, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 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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