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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 14 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Object Lessons ; |
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Brennan, Summer.
Object Lessons. Spoken word ;
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Allyson Ryan. |
| 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Ryan, Allyson, 1976- Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781515936077 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1515936074 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12373149 |
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