Title: Shoes : a history from sandals to sneakers /
Authors: Riello, Giorgio; McNeil, Peter, 1966-
Publisher: Berg,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Shoes History
Contents: Introduction : a long walk : shoes, people and places / Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil -- Ch. 1. Beneath their shining feet : shoes and sandals in classical Greece / Sue Blundell -- Ch. 2. Sumptuous shoes : making and wearing in medieval Italy / Maria Giuseppe Muzzarelli -- Ch. 3. Courtly Lady or Courtesan? The Venetian Chopine in the Renaissance / Andrea Vianello -- Ch. 4. Walking the streets of London and Paris : shoes in the Enlightenment / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello -- Ch. 5. War and Wellingtons : military footwear in the age of empire / Alison Matthews David -- Ch. 6. The perils of choice : women’s footwear in nineteenth-century America / Nancy Rexford -- Ch. 7. Purity, pollution and place in traditional Japanese footwear / Martha Chaiklin -- Ch. 8. Interrogating Africa’s past : footwear among the Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi -- Ch. 9. A dream of butterflies? : shoes in Chinese culture / Paola Zamperini -- Ch. 10. Fashioning masculinity : men’s footwear and modernity / Christopher Breward -- Ch. 11. A delicate balance : women, power and high heels / Elizabeth Semmelhack -- Ch. 12. Shoes and the erotic imagination / Valerie Steele -- Ch. 13. Sex and sin : the magic of red shoes / Hilary Davidson -- Ch. 14. Beyond the rainbow : queer shoes / Clare Lomas, Peter McNeil and Sally Gray -- Ch. 15. Made in Italy : Ferragamo and twentieth-century fashion / Stefania Ricci -- Ch. 16. Style through design : form and function / Giovanni Luigi Fontana -- Ch. 17. Sole representation : shoe imagery and twentieth-century art / Julia Pine -- Ch. 18. Limousines for the feet : the rhetoric of sneakers / Alison Gill -- Ch. 19. The male cinderella : shoes, genius and fantasy / Peter McNeil and Georgia Riello.