Shoes : A History from Sandals to Sneakers (Paperback)

Introduction. A Long Walk: Shoes, People and Places, Giorgio Riello (London School of Economics, UK) and Peter McNeil (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) STEP 1. A FOOT IN THE PAST 1. Beneath Their Shining Feet: Shoes and Sandals in Classical Greece, Sue Blundell (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) 2. Sumptuous Shoes: Making and Wearing in Medieval Italy, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli (University of Bologna, Italy) 3. Courtly Lady or Courtesan? The Venetian Chopine in the Renaissance, Andrea Vianello (Saint Joseph's College, Maine, USA) 4. Walking the Streets of London and Paris in the Enlightenment, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello 5. War Wellingtons: Military Footwear in the Age of Empire, Alison Matthews David (Winchester School of Art and University of Southampton, UK) 6. The Perils of Choice: Women's Footwear in Nineteenth-Century America, Nancy Rexford (Independent scholar) STEP 2. ENCOUNTERS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS 7. Purity, Pollution and Place in Traditional Japanese Footwear, Martha Chaiklin (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) 8. Interrogating Africa's Past: Footwear Amongst the Yoruba, Tunde M. Akinwumi (University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria) 9. A Dream of Butterflies? Shoes in Chinese Culture, Paola Zamperini (Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA) STEP 3. SHOES, BODIES AND IDENTITIES 10. Fashioning Masculinity: Men's Footwear and Modernity, Christopher Breward (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK) 11. A Delicate Balance: Women, Power and High Heels, Elizabeth Semmelhack (Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada) 12. Shoes and the Erotic Imagination, Valerie Steele (Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA) 13. Sex and Sin: The Magic of Red Shoes, Hilary Davidson (University of Southampton, UK) 14. Beyond the Rainbow: Queer Shoes, Clare Lomas (London College of Fashion, UK), Peter McNeil and Sally Gray (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) STEP 4. REPRESENTATION AND SELF-PRESENTATION 15. Made in Italy: Ferragamo and Twentieth-Century Fashion, Stefania Ricci (Ferragamo Museum, Florence, Italy) 16. Style Through Design: Form and Function, Giovanni Luigi Fontana (University of Padua, Italy) 17. Sole Representation: Shoe Imagery and Twentieth-Century Art, Julia Pine (University of Carleton) 18. Limousines for the Feet: The Rhetoric of Trainers, Alison Gill (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 19. Conclusion. The Male Cinderella: Shoes, Genius and Fantasy, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello