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Title

Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers / edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Riello, Giorgio.
• McNeil, Peter, 1966-

Description

439 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Shoes > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.

Contents

Introduction: A long walk: shoes, people and places / Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil -- STEP 1. A FOOT IN THE PAST: Beneath their shining feet: shoes and sandals in classical Greece / Sue Blundell -- Sumptuous shoes: making and wearing in medieval Italy / Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli -- Courtly lady or courtesan? the Venetian chopine in the Renaissance / Andrea Vianello -- Walking the streets of London and Paris in the Enlightenment / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello -- War Wellingtons: military footwear in the Age of Empire / Alison Matthews David -- The perils of choice: women's footwear in nineteenth-century America / Nancy Rexford -- STEP 2. ENCOUNTERS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS: Purity, pollution and place in traditional Japanese footwear / Martha Chaiklin -- Interrogating Africa's past: footwear amongst the Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi -- A dream of butterflies? shoes in Chinese culture / Paola Zamperini -- STEP 3. SHOES, BODIES AND IDENTITIES: Fashioning masculinity: men's footwear and modernity / Christopher Breward -- A delicate balance: women, power and high heels / Elizabeth Semmelhack -- Shoes and the erotic imagination / Valerie Steele -- Sex and sin: the magic of red shoes / Hilary Davidson -- Beyond the rainbow: queer shoes / Clare Lomas, Peter McNeil and Sally Gray -- STEP 4. REPRESENTATION AND SELF-PRESENTATION: Made in Italy: Ferragamo and twentieth-century fashion / Stefania Ricci -- Style through design: form and function / Giovanni Luigi Fontana -- Sole representation: shoe imagery and twentieth-century art / Julia Pine -- Limousines for the feet: the rhetoric of trainers / Alison Gill -- Conclusion. The male Cinderella: shoes, genius and fantasy / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello.

Call Number

GT2130

ISBN

• 1845204433 (cloth)
• 9781845204433 (cloth)

LCCN

2006017666

OCLC

69734493

Title

Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers / edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Edition

English ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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Added Author

Riello, Giorgio.

McNeil, Peter, 1966-

Research Call Number

*R-ART GT2130 .S468 2006