Shoes and the Georgian Man
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1350358673
ISBN-13
9781350358676
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 9th, 2025
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
800 grams
Dimensions
24.80 x 19.40 x 1.80 cms
Ksh 15,300.00
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The first dedicated study of men’s footwear in the long eighteenth century, taking the distinctive approach of thinking about shoes as material objects that have a close relationship with the masculine body.
Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. This book reveals how shoes played a powerful role in the wider story of shifts in gender relations in 18th-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship of shoes with the body and its movements, and therefore how what we wear on our feet relates closely to social, occupational and gender roles. It also uses footwear to explore topics such as politics, war, dance and disability. Thinking about shoes as material objects, McCormack studied historic shoes first-hand in museums, in order to ascertain their physical properties and what they would have been like to wear. Worn shoes preserve traces of the wearer’s body in their indentations, stretches and scuffs, providing a unique primary source about their wearer. This approach forges new connections between the histories or material culture, gender and the body, and sheds new light on what it meant to be a man in the 18th century.
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