Do High Heels empower or constrain?
von Germaine Greer (Link: Times)
High Heels werden immer länger, aber bedeutet das auch mehr Emanzipation oder eher mehr gesellschaftlichen Zwang als Sexualobjekt für Männer zu fungieren, fragt sich die Autorin Germaine Greer, eine der bedeutendsten Feministinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein kurzer Streifzug durch die Kulturgeschichte des (männlichen) Fuß- und des (weiblichen) Schuhfetischismus.
Zitat
The success of the TV series Sex and the City since 1998 derives partly from the accuracy of its basic tenets that chocolate and shopping are more satisfactory than sex and that all women hanker after extravagant shoes. Improved engineering had by then made Manolo Blahnik’s dizzier heels wearable. Just. Women who wear trainers to travel to work will change into serious heels when they get there, unless they are salespeople or factory workers or nurses. As well as carrying a complex set of sexual implications, heels are a way of signalling vicarious leisure. Some say that foot fetishism gains ground when intercourse becomes too dangerous. Lap dancers, strippers and porn stars wear the highest platforms of all.
