High heels as mobile media
(Im)mobilities and feminist ecologies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12778778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia M Hildebrand (0000-0003-2798-2094, Eckerd College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 381-397 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Explorations in Media Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-7785 • E-ISSN: 2048-0717 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/eme_00179_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4391509356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article critically explores the high heel as a mobile medium by discussing the contentious footwear through the lens of media ecology and mobilities research. Employing the McLuhans’ ‘laws of media’ or ‘tetrad’, I highlight what the high heel enhances, obsolesces, retrieves from the past and flips into when pushed to an extreme. This tetradic reading also draws on contemporary feminist media studies and a gender and media ecology subfield. Ultimately, the article shows to what extent the high heel is an ambiguous and divisive medium that extends the female and male body; shapes and is shaped by past and present cultural, social and political environments; and affords a range of physical, corporeal, social, imaginative and affective (im)mobilities
Economic geography · Geography · Media studies · Mobilities · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Spatial and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |