High Heel

Author : Summer Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501326004

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High Heel by Summer Brennan Pdf

Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, 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? Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : Lisa Small
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Platform shoes
ISBN : 3791353802

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Killer Heels by Lisa Small Pdf

Killer Heels explores the rich cultural history of the high heel and its relation to power, fantasy, sexuality and identity. More than 160 spectacular contemporary and historical shoe designs - from sixteenth-century Venetian platforms to twenty-first-century Christian Louboutins - are presented around six themes: Revival and Reinterpretation, Rising in the East, Glamour and Transgression, Architecture, Metamorphosis and Space Walk. Going beyond the archetypal forms of stiletto, wedge and platform, these extraordinary designs play with the cultural and artistic possibilities of the high heel, use innovative or unexpected materials and push the limits of functionality, wear ability and beauty. Complementing the shoes are stills, sketches and artist statements for six films specially commissioned for the exhibition from Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Zach Gold, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Marilyn Minter and Rashaad Newsome that explore a range of provocative themes and demonstrate the power of the high heel in the collective imagination. In addition, several of the designers included in the exhibition (including Brian Atwood, Zaha Hadid, Pierre Hardy and Christian Louboutin), along with Elizabeth Semmelhack, Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, contribute thoughts on topics such as their inspiration and design process and the cultural significance of high heels. Beautiful, informative and just plain fun, this collection of killer heels is filled with stunning photos and fashion lore.

Author : J.J. Leganeur
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781469114651

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All About Wearing High Heels by J.J. Leganeur Pdf

This book discusses when one should not wear high heels, toe nail care, how to shop for high heels, getting the proper fit, shoe uppers, shoe soles, straps, boots, mules, slippers, loose fitting sandals, ground surfaces, foot cushions, platform soles, toe types, heel types, measuring heel height, mid-heels, high heels including super high 6 and 7 inch heels, shoe styles, how to prepare new shoes, what to do with shoes that do not fit, how long one can wear high heels, caring for shoes, maintaining health, and old age. There are also chapters about foot arches, Achilles tendons, calf muscles, walking, and much, much more. This book can be invaluable to devoted high heel wearers, as well as beginners.

Author : Gisela Sito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999138308

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The Sexy Art of High Heel Walking by Gisela Sito Pdf

The reason why I wrote this book ¿For almost 4,000 years, it has been engrained in our subconscious and encoded in our DNA about high heel shoes¿ ¿sexy effect.¿ Starting with the ancient Egyptians they were associated with demigods on earth, and then to nobility for the ancient Greeks and Romans. The French kings¿ courts had elevated high heels as a fashion statement, although it was outlawed by Napoleon for a short period. It quickly revived back to its original status in boosting one¿s sex appeal even up to the modern times. There are so many misconceptions about high heels. It have been blamed for almost all foot maladies from bunions, neuroma, and ankle injuries. It is like blaming the car for injuring and killing people. Let¿s not forget a minor detail: it¿s the operator¿s skill level is usually at fault, not the car. High heel walking is a special skill set. To be sexy, confident and pain free on high heels, one has to master the special skill. It is a learned walking skill, not instinctual. It is not ideal to learn the skill on your own to be able to do it correctly, safely, and without injury. The majority of women who tried to do it on their own usually experienced foot pain, suffering¿ and HUMILIATION! However, it doesn¿t stop most women from buying high heels even without learning the proper high heel walking technique.

Author : Carla Freeman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822380290

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High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy by Carla Freeman Pdf

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism—production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities—in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called “informatics.” It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies. Freeman examines the expansion of the global assembly line into the realm of computer-based work, and focuses specifically on the incorporation of young Barbadian women into these high-tech informatics jobs. As such, Caribbean women are seen as integral not simply to the workings of globalization but as helping to shape its very form. Through the enactment of “professionalism” in both appearances and labor practices, and by insisting that motherhood and work go hand in hand, they re-define the companies’ profile of “ideal” workers and create their own “pink-collar” identities. Through new modes of dress and imagemaking, the informatics workers seek to distinguish themselves from factory workers, and to achieve these new modes of consumption, they engage in a wide array of extra income earning activities. Freeman argues that for the new Barbadian pink-collar workers, the globalization of production cannot be viewed apart from the globalization of consumption. In doing so, she shows the connections between formal and informal economies, and challenges long-standing oppositions between first world consumers and third world producers, as well as white-collar and blue-collar labor. Written in a style that allows the voices of the pink-collar workers to demonstrate the simultaneous burdens and pleasures of their work, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy will appeal to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women’s studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labor and postcolonial studies.

Author : Ivan Vartanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fashion photography
ISBN : 1935202693

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High Heels by Ivan Vartanian Pdf

Featuring a vivid selection of contemporary fashion photography, this volume is a visual odyssey through ideas of beauty, danger and seduction. Its exploration of the confluence of art, fashion and fetish in the cult of high heels swooping down fashion show runways and city streets everywhere is an enticing mixture whimsy, allure and luxury. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in fashion or contemporary photography.

Author : Frank Rispoli,Erick Bradshaw Hughes
Publisher : Circa
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 1911422308

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Frank Rispoli - High Heels by Frank Rispoli,Erick Bradshaw Hughes Pdf

* First book by veteran New York photographer and club habitué, Frank Rispoli* Rispoli's photographs capture the energy and decadence of the '80s club scene in Manhattan* Rispoli's witty focus on women's shoes gives this documentary a unique viewpointAs a young man, living in Manhattan in the 1970s and '80s, Frank Rispoli was drawn to the New Wave and Punk club scenes. Recognizing the inherent performance of sexuality and desire in both fashion and club culture, he documented the intertwining of the two. Always with a camera strapped around his neck, he frequented Danceteria, Tier 3, Max's Kansas City, Studio 54 and many other clubs in Soho, Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Midtown. Rispoli asked female clubgoers, bar patrons, singers, and band members if he could photograph their shoes, utilizing the staged sets, props, and bathrooms of the clubs, and the taxis, sidewalks, and rooftops of the city, as his backdrops. A selection of these photographs forms the basis of his first book - High Heels. Rispoli attributes his interest in women's shoes to his inability, as a teenager, to look women in the eye and, due to his shyness, focusing on their feet instead. He drew further inspiration from the work of Guy Bourdin, and his advertising photography of the period. Rispoli continues, in his photographs, to capture the fun, freedom, and performance found in other outsider communities and events, such as Wigstock, and the burgeoning art scene in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 7302088756

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2005 MBA入学考试英语阅读理解精粹200篇 by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Disabled veterans
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037313683

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Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ergonomics Society. Conference
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0748403280

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Contemporary Ergonomics 1995 by Ergonomics Society. Conference Pdf

Author : Stephen R. Lord,Catherine Sherrington,Hylton B. Menz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521589649

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Falls in Older People by Stephen R. Lord,Catherine Sherrington,Hylton B. Menz Pdf

Covering epidemiology, evidence-based risk assessment and falls-prevention strategies, this book will be invaluable to all involved with health care of the elderly.

Author : X.D. Yu,M.Y. Zhang,M.Q. Zhu,K.H. Xu,Q.C. Xiang
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 4823 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783038264415

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Vehicle, Mechatronics and Information Technologies II by X.D. Yu,M.Y. Zhang,M.Q. Zhu,K.H. Xu,Q.C. Xiang Pdf

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Vehicle & Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology (VMEIT 2014), February 19-20, 2014. The 1058 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Design and Researches in Area of Vehicle and General Mechanical Engineering, Chapter 2: Power and Electric Systems, Electronics and Microelectronics, Embedded and Integrated Systems, Chapter 3: Measurement and Instrumentation, Monitoring and Detection Technologies, Fault Diagnosis, Chapter 4: Mechatronics, Automation and Control, Chapter 5: Computation Methods and Algorithms for Modeling, Simulation and Optimization, Data Mining and Data Processing, Chapter 6: Communication, Signal and Image Processing, Data Acquisition, Identification and Recognition Technologies, Chapter 7: Information Technologies, WEB and Networks Engineering, Information Security, Software Application and Development, Chapter 8: Material Science, Technologies of Material Processing, Exploration and Mining of Mineral Resources, Chapter 9: Building Materials and Technologies in Construction, Chapter 10: New Technologies in Urban Construction and Environmental Engineering, Chapter 11: Modern Tendency in Area of Management Engineering, Logistics, Economics, Finance and Education, Chapter 12: Applied Research and Solutions in Area of Sports and Physical Training

Author : Melvyn Kay
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203960776

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Practical Hydraulics by Melvyn Kay Pdf

Hydraulics has a reputation for being a complex, even intimidating, discipline. Put simply, hydraulics is the study of how water and similar fluids behave and can be harnessed for practical use. It is one of the fundamental scientific and engineering subjects and many professions demand a working knowledge of its basic concepts, yet most hydraulics textbooks are aimed at readers with a strong engineering or mathematical background. Practical Hydraulics approaches the subject from basic principles and demonstrates how these are applied in practice. It is clearly written and includes many illustrations and examples. It will appeal to a wide range of professionals and students needing an introduction to the subject, from farmers irrigating crops to fire crews putting out fires with high-pressure water hoses. However hydraulics is not just about water. Many other fluids behave in the same way and so affect a wide range of people from doctors, needing to know how blood flows in veins, to car designers, wanting to save fuel by reducing drag.

Author : Gemma Halliday
Publisher : Gemma Halliday Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984857401

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Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halliday Pdf

L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her.

Author : Ravindra S. Goonetilleke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439835685

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The Science of Footwear by Ravindra S. Goonetilleke Pdf

Although we now have sophisticated algorithms and techniques for determining the shapes and sizes and for matching the fit between shoes and feet, few, if any, of the books currently available cover these new technologies until now. Bringing together high-quality and state-of-the-art contributions from designers, biomechanists, ergonomists, engineers, podiatrists, and scientists from industry and academia, The Science of Footwear provides an in-depth understanding of the technology and techniques involved in the design and development of a popular and demanding consumer product. This book introduces the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of footwear. The chapters contain data from past research and the state-of-the art methodologies. They not only cover every aspect of the product design, but also how the footwear industry caters to the wide-ranging needs of sophisticated and demanding customers. The footwear industry has rapidly changed over the last 10 years. Mass production has changed to personalization and mass customization, areas that are not well-understood. This book explores these different concepts in a coherent way, drawing on differing views that give a holistic view of the science behind footwear. Collating information from different disciplines, the book provides the tools to develop the next generation of footwear.