8.1 Symbols: The Handmade Life and The Red Sh...

Menstruation, reverence, sacred images of the feminine, and Inanna all come together in this conversation with mythologist, Goddess Studies scholar, and author Dr. Annalisa Derr.Through the ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna’s descent, we explore the body as living mythology, femini ...  عرض المزيد

Ancient Peru, the living land, and the wisdom of the more-than-human world weave through this conversation with K.M. Huber, author of Call of the Owl Woman and Dance of the Owl Woman.Together, we explore the ancient Nasca world, the meeting place between archaeology and imaginati ...  عرض المزيد

Footwear - the ‘magic’ & the material reality. Laurie Taylor talks to Claudio Benzecry, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University, about the people and places involved in the global manufacture of women’s shoes. They’re joined by Elizab ...  عرض المزيد

As a fashion object and symbol, the high heel shoe is weighted with meaning. It’s also weighted with the wearer’s entire body weight. The stiletto might be one of the only designs that is physically painful but has somehow has … <a href="http://99percentinvisible.prx.org/2014/ ...

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Shoes - a journey through our lives and identities. From 'brothel creepers' to perilous stilettos, our choice of footwear changes and evolves over a life time. Laurie Taylor talks to Victoria Robinson, Reader in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, about the ways in which sh ...  عرض المزيد