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To a reviewer who scribbled shoes on a ship's menu at the age of five, it was a delight to learn that Andy Warhol's earliest sketches were also of shoes. This revelation is one of many found in Footnotes's 14 essays, which explore today's cultural fascination with shoes. As they did in On Fashion (Rutgers Univ., 1994), Benstock (English, Univ. of Miami) and Ferris's (literature and gender studies, Nova Southeastern Univ.) have selected essays that range from academic social science treatises to personal musings in this case, on shoe size. Shoes are seen as symbols of oppression (the brogues of former slaves in the South), persecution (piles of empty shoes on the floors of concentration camps), pain for the sake of idealized beauty (ballet slippers equated with Chinese bound feet), and gender and ethnic identity ("sexy shoes" and Latinas' high heels). Also discussed are folktales such as "The Red Shoes" and "Cinderella" and lesbian shoe fetishism in literature (Rebecca). Thought-provoking, often haunting, and sometimes puzzling, these challenging essays will be most useful to students and professors of culture. Recommended for academic libraries. Therese Duzinkiewicz Baker, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"This book has a lot to offer the common reader, especially one with a thing for shoes." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"This remarkable compendium of essays reveals how shoes transcend multiple identities, boundaries, and emotions." -- Susan Kaiser, author of The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context
"This remarkable compendium of essays reveals how shoes transcend multiple identities, boundaries, and emotions." -- Susan Kaiser, author of The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context
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The centrality of postmodern fashion to the commodity culture of the museum is nowhere more obviously and daringly presented than in the recently erected Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phallic femininity, shoe museum, shoe fetishism, feminine masquerade, female masquerade, dance slipper, female fetishism, sexual fetishism, red shoes, pointe shoes, bound foot, elegant shoes, ghetto child, ballet technique, wooden feet, shoe design, shoe shopping, court shoes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Andy Warhol, Sigmund Freud, African Americans, Samuel Bak, Courtesy of the Bata Shoe Museum, Isadora Duncan, Puerto Rican, Salvatore Ferragamo, Self Portrait, Caroline Evans, Jim Dine, Lucie Russell, Cornell University Press, Primo Levi, The Gentle Step, Van Hopper, Zeta Acosta, Jacques Derrida, James Strachey, Jane Eyre, Lisa Milroy, New Haven, Oxford University Press New!
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The centrality of postmodern fashion to the commodity culture of the museum is nowhere more obviously and daringly presented than in the recently erected Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phallic femininity, shoe museum, shoe fetishism, feminine masquerade, female masquerade, dance slipper, female fetishism, sexual fetishism, red shoes, pointe shoes, bound foot, elegant shoes, ghetto child, ballet technique, wooden feet, shoe design, shoe shopping, court shoes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Andy Warhol, Sigmund Freud, African Americans, Samuel Bak, Courtesy of the Bata Shoe Museum, Isadora Duncan, Puerto Rican, Salvatore Ferragamo, Self Portrait, Caroline Evans, Jim Dine, Lucie Russell, Cornell University Press, Primo Levi, The Gentle Step, Van Hopper, Zeta Acosta, Jacques Derrida, James Strachey, Jane Eyre, Lisa Milroy, New Haven, Oxford University Press New!
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