TY  - CHAP
AU  - McCormack, Matthew
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.4324/9781003147428-7
KW  - Ages, Christopher, Contemporary, Everyday, Fletcher, Middle, Objects, Political, World
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/3eb44aca-1f2b-4f63-98c3-b5ca011a37bc/9781003147428_oachapter7.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50010
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9780367706616
SN  - 9780367706609
TI  - Chapter 7 Wooden shoes and Wellington boots : The politics of footwear in Georgian Britain
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