Must Reads 21st March 2019
Hope this finds you all well and enjoying the first official days of Spring! Here are my top picks of new books I've added to my To Be Read list today! High Heel by Summer Brennan Object Lesson Series (Non-Fiction) Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishised, demonised, 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? Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairy-tale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock. It 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