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This chapter therefore makes a case for a political history of shoes, by bringing together these two rich fields. It will begin by thinking about the nature of political culture in the eighteenth century, where political virtue was evaluated in highly moral and gendered terms, and where shoes bec...
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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| Περίληψη: | This chapter therefore makes a case for a political history of shoes, by bringing
together these two rich fields. It will begin by thinking about the nature of
political culture in the eighteenth century, where political virtue was evaluated in
highly moral and gendered terms, and where shoes became the focus of debates
about masculinity and citizenship. It will then turn its attention to citizenship in a
national sense, to think about how certain types of leather shoes came to be seen
as synonymous with Britishness, and how wearing them informed what it meant
to live as a ‘Briton.’ Debates about politics and gender were inseparable from those
on social class, and shoes worn by different social classes were loaded with political
meaning. They also give us an insight into how people from different social classes
moved and comported themselves. Focusing on the history of shoes in these ways
can therefore show how embodiment should be central to our understanding of the
practice of politics in eighteenth-century Britain. |
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