{"product_id":"high-heel-9781501325991","title":"High Heel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Fifteen Books of March 2019, \u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Nonfiction Books of 2019, \u003ci\u003ePaste Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50467074375954,"sku":"9781501325991","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_829aa9b6-1fc9-424c-9ae2-b009cd1d47af.jpg?v=1730128973","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/high-heel-9781501325991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}