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A lively exploration of the cultural significance of shoes.
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Shari Benstock is a professor of English and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. She is the author of several books, most recently "No Gifts from Chance": A Biography of Edith Wharton. Suzanne Ferriss teaches literature and gender studies at Nova Southeastern University. Together they also edited On Fashion (Rutgers University Press).
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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
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Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001
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Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, mylar cover, 325 pp., BW illus. A collection of 16 essays dealing with the cultural fascination with shoes. Offers "various answers to this question, from the perspectives of art, film, literature, history, folklore, dance, psychology, and cultural studies." (dj) Much food for thought here. G (Ex-art library; no DJ; labels on bindings; i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; interior is clean.). Seller Inventory # 161448
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