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oapen-20.500.12657-500102021-07-15T00:56:38Z Chapter 7 Wooden shoes and Wellington boots McCormack, Matthew Ages, Christopher, Contemporary, Everyday, Fletcher, Middle, Objects, Political, World bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history 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. 2021-07-14T09:48:35Z 2021-07-14T09:48:35Z 2021 chapter 9780367706616 9780367706609 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50010 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003147428_oachapter7.pdf Taylor & Francis Everyday Political Objects Routledge 10.4324/9781003147428-7 10.4324/9781003147428-7 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb a9a5645b-117c-46f1-90ec-06d725b3b248 143e059c-d417-47c8-8c3a-9be803199eab 9780367706616 9780367706609 Routledge 17 University of Northampton open access
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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 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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