The metaphorical significance of shoes:

 

1. Shelly Budgeons argument towards the body as an event.

 

1. Poststructuralist feminist thought. 

2. Identity and the body is something that can be performed, negotiated, augmented and reshaped. 

3. The politicised body, the medical body, the gendered body. 

 

Budgeon, S 2003, Identity as an ‘Embodied Event,’  Sage Journals

 

1. Candace West and Don H Zimmerman’s concept of ‘Doing Gender’

   1. Gender is not something we are, but something we do.

   2. Shoes as an act of conformity or resistance. 

   3. The act of putting on shoes as adopting an identity, putting on someone else’s shoes is considering their human experience

 

West, C, Zimmerman, D, H, 1987, ‘Doing Gender,’ Sage Journals.