This reading list contains a range of sources from single-author and edited volumes to book chapters, academic journal articles, exhibition catalogues and research theses. We have grouped these into drop-down categories to help guide you according to your interests.

To search the reading list simply expand all the categories below and type ‘command F’ to locate your keywords. Alternatively, browse the publications according to your area of interest.

PLEASE NOTE: This is an evolving resource so if you notice something missing or you would like to suggest additional categories please email alex@footwearresearchnetwork.org

Belk, R. W. (2003). Shoes and Self. Advances in Consumer Research, 30, 27-33.

Braithwaite, N. (2017). Sensing Creativity: The Role of Materials in Shoe Design. The Senses and Society, 12, 90-94.

Braithwaite, N. (2015). Case Studies in Creativity. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Braithwaite, N. (2014). Materializing Fashion: Designers, Materials, Ideas and the Creation of Designer Shoes. Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 5, 53-66.

Dilley, R., Hockey, J., Robinson, V. & Sherlock, A. (2014). Occasions and Non-occasions: Identity, Femininity and High-Heeled Shoes. European Journal of Women's Studies [Online]. Available here.

Ekström, K. M. (2015). The Shoe Cabinet. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Goodacre, L. J. & Candy, F. J. (2011). 'If I didn't have RA I wouldn't give them house room': The relationship between rheumatoid arthritis, footwear and clothing choices. Rheumatology, 50, 513-517. Available here.

Groves, A. (2022). A Casual Obsession: Inside the British Sock Fetish Council. Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, 9, 187-206.

Hockey, J., Dilley, R., Robinson, V. & Sherlock, A. (2015). ‘There's not just trainers or non-trainers, there's like degrees of trainers’: Commoditisation, Singularisation and Identity. Journal of Material Culture Studies, 20, 21-42.

Hockey, J., Dilley, R., Robinson, V. & Sherlock, A. (2014). The Temporal Landscape of Shoes: A Life Course Perspective. The Sociological Review, 62, 255-275.

Hockey, J., Dilley, R., Robinson, V. & Sherlock, A. (2013). Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear. Sociological Research Online [Online], 18. Available here.

Kawamura, Y. (2016). Sneakers: Fashion, Gender and Subculture, London; New York, Bloomsbury Academic.

Nicholls, E., Robinson, V., Farndon, L. & Wesley, V. (2018). “A Good Fit?” Bringing the Sociology of Footwear to the Clinical Encounter in Podiatry Services: A Narrative Review. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 11, 9-9.

Nicholls, E., Robinson, V. & Farndon, L. 2016. ‘The last thing I want is my shoes to stand out’: Embodied Experience, Identity and Footwear Choice Amongst Patients with Complex Health Conditions. ASA Section on Body & Embodiment [Online]. Available here.

Knowles, C. (2014). Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation’s Backroads, Pluto Press.

Robinson, Victoria, Sarah Neal, and Karim Murji. 2015. Reconceptualising the Mundane and the Extraordinary: A Lens Through Which to Explore Transformation Within Women’s Everyday Footwear Practices. Sociology 49 (5):903-18. Available Here.

Robinson, V. (2014). Risky Footwear Practices: Masculinity, Identity and Crisis. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 9, 151-165.

Sampson, E. (2020). Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear, London, Bloomsbury.

Sampson, E. (2018). Entanglement, Affect and Experience: Walking and Wearing (Shoes) as Experimental Research Methodology. International Journal of Fashion Studies, 5, 55-76.

Sherlock, A. (2014). 'It's kind of where the shoe gets you to I suppose': Materializing Identity with Footwear. Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 5, 25-51.

Webster, E. (2009). Red Shoes: Linking Fashion and Myth. The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 7, 164-177.

Cantoni, L. & Stachel, C. (2023). When Shoe Heritage is on Display. In: Sabatini, N., Sádaba, T., Tosi, A., Neri, V. & Cantoni, L., eds. FACTUM: Fashion Communication in the Digital Age, 2023 Pisa, Italy. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, Springer, Cham.

Beverland, M. & Ewing, M. (2005). Slowing the adoption and diffusion process to enhance brand repositioning: The consumer driven repositioning of Dunlop Volley. Business Horizons, 48, 385-391.

Newman, A. (2012). Clarks in Jamaica, One Love Books.

Palmer, M. (2013). Clarks: Made to Last. The Story of Britain's Best-Known Shoe Firm, London, Profile Books Ltd.

Peterson, H. (2007). Chucks! The Phenomenon of Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars, New York, Skyhorse Publishing.

Roach, M. (1999). Dr. Martens AirWair, AirWair Limited.

Schlittler, A.-B. & Tietze, K. (2021). Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period: A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period, Transcript Publishing.

Semmelhack, E. (2019). Christian Dior by Roger Vivier, New York, Rizzoli.

Semmelhack, E. (2013). As Worn By. Roger Vivier. New York: Rizzoli.

Akinwumi, T. M. (2006). Interrogating Africa's Past: Footwear Among the Yoruba. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Bain, R. (2015). Status and Power in the Hamman. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Bain, R. (2015). Suffering for Beauty. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Barthelemy, A. (2001). Brogans. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) (2001). Footnotes: on Shoes, New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers University Press.

Bergstein, R. (2012). Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How they Define Us., New York, Harper.

Blackman, C. (2015). The Rise of the Celebrity Shoe Designer. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Boydell, C. (1996). The Training Shoe: 'Pump up the Power'. In: Kirkham, P. (ed.) The Gendered Object. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Breward, C. (2015). Men In Heels: From Power to Perversity. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Breward, C. (2006). Fashioning Masculinity: Men's Footwear and Modernity. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Brydon, A. (1998). Sensible Shoes. In: Brydon, A. & Niessen, S. (eds.) Consuming Fashion. Oxford: Berg.

Blundell, S. (2006). Beneath their Shining Feet: Shoes and Sandals in Classical Greece. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Cantoni, L. (2022). Preface. In: Del Pasqua, L., Scarpe da favola: Footwear and fairy tales. Milan: Assocalzaturifici.

Chaiklin, M. (2006). Purity, Pollution and Place in Traditional Japanese Footwear. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Chrisman-Campbell, K. (2015). Marie Antoinette: Off with Her Heels. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Cox, C. & Louboutin, C. (2008). Vintage Shoes: Collecting and Wearing Twentieth-Century Designer Footwear, New York, Collins Design.

Cox, C. (2004). Stiletto, London, Mitchell Beazley.

Davidson, H. (2015). Shoes as Magical Objects. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Davidson, H. (2008). The Red Shoes. In: Uhlirova, M. (ed.) If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence. London: Koenig Books.

Davidson, H. (2006). Sex and Sin: the Magic of Red Shoes. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: a History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Demello, M. (2009). Feet and Footwear. A Cultural Encylopedia., Santa Barbara, California, Greenwood Press.

Emberley, J. (2001). The Ends of Fashion; Or Learning to Theorize with Shoes in the Bata Museum. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Gill, A. (2009). Sneakers. In: Clark, H. & Brody, D. E. (eds.) Design Studies: A Reader. Oxford: Berg.

Gill, A. (2006). Limousines for the Feet: The Rhetoric of Sneakers. In: Riello, G. & Mcneil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Guengerich, S. V. (2013). Unfitting Shoes: Footwear Fashions and Social Mobility in Colonial Peru. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 14, 159-185.

Hendrick, T. (2001). Are You a Pura Latina? Or Menudo Every Day: Tacones and Symbolic Ethnicity. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Houlbrook, C. (2013). Ritual, Recycling and Recontextualization: Putting the Concealed Shoe into Context. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 23, 99-112.

Jain-Neubauer, J. (2000). Feet and Footwear in Indian Culture, Toronto, Bata Shoe Museum/ Mapin Publishing.

Johnston, L. & Woolley, L. (2017). Shoes, London, Victoria and Albert Museum/ Thames & Hudson.

Jones, E. C. (2001). Empty Shoes. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Kaiser, S. B., Schutz, H. G. & Chandler, J. (1987). Cultural Codes and Sex-Role Ideology: A Study of Shoes. American Journal of Semiotics, 5, 13-34.

Kennedy, K. (2015). The Unnatural Shapes of Medieval Footwear. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Keyser, A. (2015). Sneaker Century: A History of Athletic Shoes, Twenty-First Century Books.

Ko, D. (2005). Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding, Berkeley, California, University of California Press.

Lomas, C., McNeil, P. & Gray, S. (2006). Beyond the Rainbow: Queer Shoes. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Lyon, J. (2001). The Modern Foot. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Lyon, T. (2001). Big Feets: Or How Cinderalla's Glass Slipper Got Smashed Under the Heel of a Size Ten Doc Marten. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Mackie, E. (2001). Red Shoes and Bloody Stumps. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Matthews David, A. (2006). War and Wellingtons: Military Footwear in the Age of Empire. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Mullen, L. (2001). Wearing It Out. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Muzzarelli, M. G. (2006). Sumptuous Shoes: Making and Wearing in Medieval Italy. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Mcdowell, C. (1989). Shoes. Fashion and Fantasy, London, Thames & Hudson Ltd.

McNeil, P. & Riello, G. (2006). Walking the Streets of London and Paris: Shoes and the Enlightenment In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

McNeil, P. & Riello, G. (2006). The Male Cinderella: Shoes, Genius and Fantasy. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

McNeil, P. & Riello, G. (2005). The Art and Science of Walking: Gender, Space, and the Fashionable Body in the Long Eighteenth Century. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 9, 175-204.

Nahshon, E. (ed.) (2008). Jews and Shoes, Oxford: Berg.

Patel, D. (2015). Indian Shoes of Gold. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Pattison, A. & Cawthorne, N. (1998). A Century of Style: Shoes, London, Apple Press.

Persson, H. (2015). Lotus Steps: Shoes for Bound Feet. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Persson, H. (2015). The Art and Craft of Shoes. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Pine, J. (2006). Sole Representation: Shoe Imagery and Twentieth-Century Art. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Reaves, G. (2001). The Slip in the Ballet Slipper: Illusion and the Naked Foot. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Rexford, N. (2006). The Perils of Choice: Women's Footwear in Nineteenth-Century America. In: Riello, G. & Mcneil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Riello, G. (2010). Footwear. In: Skov, L. (ed.) Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: West Europe. Oxford: Berg.

Riello, G. (2006). A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) (2006). Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, Oxford: Berg.

Riello, G. & Mcneil, P. (2006). A Long Walk: Shoes, People and Places. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Semmelhack, E. (2024 - forthcoming). Fresh Out the Box: Sneakers and Shifting Masculinities. In: Barry, B. & Wiley, A. (eds.) Handbook of Men’s Fashion. Bristol: Intellect.

Semmelhack, E. (2023 - forthcoming). Playing Nice: The Making of Out of the Box. Interpreting Sports History at Museums and Historical Sites. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

Semmelhack, E. (2019). Women and Sneakers: From Lawn Tennis to Eugenics. Costume, 53, 92-109.

Semmelhack, E. (2019). Withering Heights: High Heels and Hegemonic Masculinity. In: Barry, B. & Wiley, A. (eds.) Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend. Bristol: Intellect.

Semmelhack, E. & Matthews David, A. (2019). The Pleasures and Perils of Collaboration: Researching and Curating the Fashion Victims Exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum. In: Mentges, G., Fink, J. & Korbik, J. (eds.) Musealizing Fashion. Munich & New York: Waxman.

Semmelhack, E. (2017). Shoes: The Meaning of Style, London, Reaktion Books.

Semmelhack, E. (2015). The Allure of Power. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Semmelhack, E. (2013). Above the Rest: Chopines as Trans-Mediterranean Fashion. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 14, 120-142.

Semmelhack, E. (2013). Reveal or Conceal: Chopines and the Display of Material Wealth in Early Modern Valencia and Venice. In: Anderson, C., Dunlop, A. & Smith, P. (eds.) The Matter of Art: Materials, Technologies, Meanings, c. 1250-1650. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Semmelhack, E. (2010). Shoes and Society: Stepping into History at the Bata Shoe Museum. Her&Mus: Heritage & Museography, 5, 53-63.

Semmelhack, E. (2010). The History of Shoemaking in North America. Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Vol 3: The United States and Canada. London: Berg.

Semmelhack, E. (2008). Heights of Fashion. A History of the Elevated Shoes, Pittsburgh, Periscope Publishing

Semmelhack, E. (2006). A Delicate Balance: Women, Power and High Heels. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Shawcross, R. (2022). Shoes: An Illustrated History, London, Bloomsbury.

Solomon, M. (2022). Méliès Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.

Steele, V. & Hill, C. (2012). Shoe Obsession, New York & London, Yale University Press.

Steele, V. (1998). Shoes. A Lexicon of Style, London, Scriptum Editions.

Swann, J. (2015). Shoes Concealed in Buildings. In: Hutton, R. (ed.) Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Swann, J. (1982). Shoes, London, Batsford.

Turim, M. (2001). High Angles on Shoes: Cinema, Gender and Footwear. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Turner, T. (2019). The Sports Shoe: A History From Field to Fashion, Bloomsbury.

Vianello, A. (2006). Courtly Lady or Courtesan? The Venetian Chopine in the Renaissance. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Walford, J. (2007). The Seductive Shoe. Four Centuries of Fashion Footwear, New York, Stewart, Tabori and Chang.

West, J. (2001). The Shoe in Art, the Shoe as Art. In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Wilson, B. & Sparks, R. (1996). “It's Gotta Be the Shoes”: Youth, Race, and Sneaker Commercials. Sociology of Sport Journal, 13, 398-427.

Wright, L. (1995). Objectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel. In: Attfield, J. & Kirkham, P. (eds.) A View from the Interior: Women and Design. London: The Women's Press.

Zamperini, P. (2006). A Dream of Butterflies? Shoes in Chinese Culture. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Cope, J. & Reponen, J. (2020). Disarmed: Lasting Impressions. In: Townsend, K., Solomon, R. & Briggs-Goode, A. (eds.) Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Braithwaite, N. (2017). Sensing Creativity: The Role of Materials in Shoe Design. The Senses and Society, 12, 90-94.

Braithwaite, N. (2015). Case Studies in Creativity. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Braithwaite, N. (2014). Materializing Fashion: Designers, Materials, Ideas and the Creation of Designer Shoes. Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 5, 53-66.

Fontana, G. L. (2006). Style through Design: Form and Function. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Hackett, J. (2015). Plastics Galore. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Hoskins, T. E. (2020). Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World, Orion Publishing Group.

Ricci, S. (2006). Made in Italy: Ferragamo and Twentieth-Century Fashion. In: Riello, G. & McNeil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Riello, G. (2015). Production for Consumption. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Scholze, J. (2015). Open Futures. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Solicari, S. (2015). The Shoemaker and the Ceramicist. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Cantoni, L., Stachel, C. & Sabatini, N. (2023). Fashion, Sport and Tourism: An itinerary in their shoes. In: Tosi, A. & Cantoni, L. (eds.) Fashion, Sport, Tourism. Pisa (Italy): ETS edizioni.

Persson, H. (ed.) (2015). Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, London: V&A Publishing.

Mitchell, L. & Ward, L. (2008 [1997]). Stepping Out: Three Centuries of Shoes, Sydney, Powerhouse Publishing.

Semmelhack, E. (2022). Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks, Rizzoli Electa.

Semmelhack, E. (2020). The World at Your Feet: The Bata Shoe Museum, New York, Rizzoli.

Semmelhack, E. (2019). Collab: Sneaker x Culture, New York, Rizzoli.

Semmelhack, E. (2015). Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men and Heels, Toronto, The Bata Shoe Museum.

Semmelhack, E., Wells, D. & Bata Shoe Museum Foundation. (2015). Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture, Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc. : American Federation of Arts.

Semmelhack, E. & Matthews David, A. (2014). Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century, Toronto, The Bata Shoe Museum.

Semmelhack, E. (2012). Roger Vivier: Process and Perfection, Toronto, The Bata Shoe Museum.

Semmelhack, E. (2009). On a Pedestal: Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels, Toronto, The Bata Shoe Museum.

Semmelhack, E. (2005). Icons of Elegance: The Most Influential Shoe Designers of the 20th Century, Toronto, The Bata Shoe Museum.

Bain, R. (2015). Suffering for Beauty. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Farndon, L., Robinson, V., Nicholls, E. & Vernon, W. (2016). If the Shoe Fits: Development of an On-line Tool to Aid Practitioner/Patient Discussions About “Healthy Footwear”. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 9, 17-17.

Goodacre, L. J. & Candy, F. J. (2011). 'If I didn't have RA I wouldn't give them house room': The relationship between rheumatoid arthritis, footwear and clothing choices. Rheumatology, 50, 513-517. Available here.

Nicholls, E., Robinson, V., Farndon, L. & Vernon, W. (2020). “You don’t like to tell them their job, but it’s your foot at the end of the day”: Theorising and Negotiating “Resistance” in Clinical Encounters. Social Theory & Health, 19, 246-262.

Nicholls, E., Robinson, V., Farndon, L. & Wesley, V. (2018). “A Good Fit?” Bringing the Sociology of Footwear to the Clinical Encounter in Podiatry Services: A Narrative Review. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 11, 9-9.

Nicholls, E., Robinson, V. & Farndon, L. (2016). ‘The last thing I want is my shoes to stand out’: Embodied Experience, Identity and Footwear Choice Amongst Patients with Complex Health Conditions. ASA Section on Body & Embodiment [Online]. Available here.

Cope, J. & Reponen, J. (2020). Disarmed: Lasting Impressions. In: Townsend, K., Solomon, R. & Briggs-Goode, A. (eds.) Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Davies, C.-S. (2015). Shoes: A Very Fashionable Fetish. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure & Pain. London: V&A Publishing.

Freud, S. (1950 [1888-1938]). Fetishism. In: Strachey, J. (ed.) Collected Papers. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.

Rossi, W. A. (1977). The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe, London, Routledge and K. Paul.

Gamman, L. (2001). Self-Fashioning, Gender Display and Sexy Girl Shoes: What's at Stake - Female Fetishism or Narcissism? In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Hovey, J. (2001). In Rebecca's Shoes: Lesbian Fetishism in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca In: Benstock, S. & Ferriss, S. (eds.) Footnotes: On Shoes. London: Rutgers University Press.

Steele, V. (2015). Fashion and Fetishism: The Case of the Ballet Shoe. In: Persson, H. (ed.) Shoes: Pleasure and Pain. London: V&A Pubishing.

Steele, V. (2006). Shoes and the Erotic Imagination. In: Riello, G. & Mcneil, P. (eds.) Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers. Oxford: Berg.

Steele, V. (1996). Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power, New York, Oxford University Press.