{"id":64177,"date":"2014-09-23T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=64177"},"modified":"2014-09-17T00:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T05:57:49","slug":"the-manliest-shoes-youve-ever-seen-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/09\/23\/the-manliest-shoes-youve-ever-seen-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manliest Shoes You’ve Ever Seen (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you hear the phrase Hush Puppies, think of basset hounds, and see\u00a0these shoes, do you think “rugged, masculine, virile”? Because that’s\u00a0what the copy says. In fact, this ad argues that wearing these shoes might make a women’s rights advocate call you a male chauvinist pig because they’re that masculine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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If this isn’t evidence of the fact that masculinity is socially constructed and changes over time, I don’t know what is.<\/p>\n

Found at Vintage Ads<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you hear the phrase Hush Puppies, think of basset hounds, and see\u00a0these shoes, do you think “rugged, masculine, virile”? Because that’s\u00a0what the copy says. In fact, this ad argues that wearing these shoes might make a women’s rights advocate call you a male chauvinist pig because they’re that masculine. If this isn’t evidence of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,55,2102,2087,253,293,23705],"class_list":["post-64177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-history","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-history","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/09\/26.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64184,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64177\/revisions\/64184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}