Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A long walk: shoes, people and places / Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil
- STEP 1. A FOOT IN THE PAST: Beneath their shining feet: shoes and sandals in classical Greece / Sue Blundell
- Sumptuous shoes: making and wearing in medieval Italy / Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli
- Courtly lady or courtesan? the Venetian chopine in the Renaissance / Andrea Vianello
- Walking the streets of London and Paris in the Enlightenment / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello
- War Wellingtons: military footwear in the Age of Empire / Alison Matthews David
- The perils of choice: women's footwear in nineteenth-century America / Nancy Rexford
- STEP 2. ENCOUNTERS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS: Purity, pollution and place in traditional Japanese footwear / Martha Chaiklin
- Interrogating Africa's past: footwear amongst the Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi
- A dream of butterflies? shoes in Chinese culture / Paola Zamperini
- STEP 3. SHOES, BODIES AND IDENTITIES: Fashioning masculinity: men's footwear and modernity / Christopher Breward
- A delicate balance: women, power and high heels / Elizabeth Semmelhack
- Shoes and the erotic imagination / Valerie Steele
- Sex and sin: the magic of red shoes / Hilary Davidson
- Beyond the rainbow: queer shoes / Clare Lomas, Peter McNeil and Sally Gray
- STEP 4. REPRESENTATION AND SELF-PRESENTATION: Made in Italy: Ferragamo and twentieth-century fashion / Stefania Ricci
- Style through design: form and function / Giovanni Luigi Fontana
- Sole representation: shoe imagery and twentieth-century art / Julia Pine
- Limousines for the feet: the rhetoric of trainers / Alison Gill
- Conclusion. The male Cinderella: shoes, genius and fantasy / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello.
