{"product_id":"high-heel-paperback","title":"High Heel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSummer Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Schaberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIan Bogost\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSummer Brennan \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist and author. She received the 2016 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award and was a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) was a finalist for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A longtime consultant for the United Nations, her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 6.4 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701517619263,"sku":"9781501325991","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/59817c72d95d7b87482ab57850802458.webp?v=1765020942","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/high-heel-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}