Men’s Judgment and Behavior Toward Women Wearing High Heels

Guéguen, Nicolas; Stefan, Jordy

doi:10.1080/10911359.2014.976697

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“…Such results are in line with the findings reported by Guéguen (2015) and Guéguen and Stefan (2015) who observed in several studies that men approached a woman wearing high heels more readily. Our results were also congruent with the findings of Morris et al (2013) who reported that women wearing high heels were perceived as more feminine.…”

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“…Thus, overall, these new findings expand those reported by Morris et al (2013), Guéguen (2015), and Guéguen & Stefan (2015). We also found that the legs and the buttocks of the woman were perceived more positively when she was wearing high heels.…”

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“…Morris et al (2013) and Smith and Helms (1999) stated that women probably use high heels to artificially increase their femininity and to become more attractive to men. Field studies recently conducted confirmed that men approach women wearing high heels more readily (Guéguen 2015;Guéguen and Stefan 2015). In a series of studies conducted by these authors, women confederates wearing shoes with 0-, 5-, or 9-cm heels asked men for help in various circumstances (asking men to participate in a survey, dropping a glove and apparently unaware of the loss, etc.).…”

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“…In a further study, it was al observed that men smiled more often to women with high heels they passed in a street and that they spontaneously approached women more quickly in a bar when the latter wore highheeled shoes. Guéguen and Stefan (2015) stated that change in gait, foot-size judgment, and misattribution of sexiness and sexual intent could explain men's behavior.…”

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Judgments toward women wearing high heels: a forced-choice evaluation

Guéguen¹,

Stefan²,

Renault³

2016

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Research reported that men interact with women wearing high heels more readily than with the same women wearing flat heels. However, the effect of heels on the judgment of women by both men and women has received little attention. Male and female participants viewed two photographs of the same woman's body profile; the woman wore high heels in the one and flat heels in the other, although her shoes and feet were not visible. Participants were asked to select one photograph of the woman on several dimensions of body attractiveness. A significant greater number of male and female participants selected the target with high heels as the sexier, the prettier, and the more elegant, with the more attractive legs and buttocks. The same target was also perceived as the younger person and the photograph that would be preferred by others and the more appropriate for a photo album. The findings support the assumption that high heels could act as secondary sexual characteristics that increase the attractiveness of women to men. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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Judgments toward women wearing high heels: a forced-choice evaluation

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2016

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“…The high-heeled shoes were a particularly noteworthy aspect of this performance because they are at once a signifier of vulnerability and abilityto balance and display physical form, not unlike Nyamza en pointe. 43 How women are expected to perform their female attractiveness is often defined, and policed, by the media, magazines, and society at large.…”

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Aesthetics of South African Women’s Embodied Activism: Staging Complicity

Hutchison

2018

Contemporary Theatre Review

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Feminism is a complex subject in Africa, and the relationship between gender studies scholars based in Africa and those based in North America and Europe has been strained because of 'the differences in political environments and experiences of racism as well as interpretations of feminist ideologies and different political alliances and coalitions'. 1 Many African women prefer to speak of 'African feminism' 2 or 'Africana womanism', 3 which highlights the specific legacies of colonialism in the current oppressions experienced by Africana women. 4 However, Gwendolyn Mikell 5 identifies the following issues as being of particular concern to women in Africa: political sovereignty, their nation's economies and domestic cultures, production and reproduction, motherhood, child mortality, marriage and bride-price, female circumcision, polygamy, access to education, and the clash between local and global values and identities. Like any ideology, African feminism is nuanced according to how it is formulated and negotiated within the details of a particular environment. As there are 58 countries, over 2000 languages and many more cultures, approaches to African feminisms differ according to context. For the purposes of this article, I am going to focus on how two South African women artists post-1994 are negotiating their understandings of their own sexualities, cultures, and identities in order to transcend what Jane Bennett and Charmaine Pereira call 'the beleaguered, and ever narrowing, spaces. .. of "gender and development" or "empowerment"'. 6 I begin by contextualising South African women practitioners, and this moment in feminist practice. During apartheid, Temple Hauptfleisch argued, 'most. .. women operated mainly in the private and commercial

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Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior

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Men’s Judgment and Behavior Toward Women Wearing High Heels

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

Judgments toward women wearing high heels: a forced-choice evaluation

Judgments toward women wearing high heels: a forced-choice evaluation

Aesthetics of South African Women’s Embodied Activism: Staging Complicity

Lordosis Behavior in Humans

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