{"product_id":"high-heel-9781501325991","title":"High Heel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFetishized, 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, \u003ci\u003eHigh Heel\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501325991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.40h x 4.70w x 0.70d","brand":"Summer Brennan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271873462453,"sku":"9781501325991","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_05787e07-5c38-4617-9698-1b741664c10b.jpg?v=1699957987","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/high-heel-9781501325991","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}