Gender Differences Between Women And Female Shoes

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and some fashion designers, such as Rad Hourani and Telfar Clemens, do not wish to categorize their collections as menswear or womenswear,” (Kawamura 59) because they claim that apparel should and can be unisex and androgynous. However, contemporary and historical female and male shoes are separable from each other. Women usually wear flip flops, high heels, and sandals, whereas men tend to wear sneakers and lace-up leather shoes. People portray different images to different types of footwear and very little about unisex shoes that can be worn interchangeably between women and men, is known. When discussing current footwear, the central topic is often female shoes and female feet and serving as a gendered object, many people have paid a lot …show more content…

Greek historian Xenophon (430-354 BC), wrote that specialized shoemakers manufactured female as well as male footwear (61). Western and non-western societies “culturally emphasize the distinction between the two sexes resulting in the pronounced sex differences by putting women in skirts and high heels and men in pants and sneakers. In this way, we make categorical differences” (61). Sociologist Prof. Erving Goffman, provides a social constructionist approach to gender differentiations in his publication on Gender Advertisements (1979), which is based on multiple new photographs and advertisements. Goffman wrote about “interactionist manifestations of gender differences,” (61) called gender display. Social or cultural differences should not be explained through biological differences. Prof. Goffman moreover states that “there is only a schedule for the portrayal of gender… only evidence of the practice between the sexes of choreographic behaviorally a portrait of relationship” (qtd. in Kawamura 61). The society encourages, even forces people to adapt to the gender script by dressing as female, or male, which helps them to create a respective gender identity and these identities are distinguished through footwear and clothing

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