{"id":38902,"date":"2025-08-08T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38902"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:02:13","slug":"caseys-book-about-purses-wins-coverage-in-ms-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/caseys-book-about-purses-wins-coverage-in-ms-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey&#8217;s book about purses wins coverage in Ms. Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38740\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38740\" class=\"wp-image-38740 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/07\/kathleen-casey-book-cover-e1752775235486.jpg\" alt=\"An image of a book cover showing three Black women holding purses. A book by Kathleen Casey.\" width=\"296\" height=\"450\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 296px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 296\/450;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oxford University Press.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new book by Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/kathleen-casey\/\">Kathleen B. Casey<\/a> is gaining attention in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/caseys-book-about-purses-reviewed-in-foreward-and-library-journal\/\">media<\/a>. Most recently, an excerpt from &#8220;The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse&#8221; (Oxford University Press) appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2025\/08\/04\/the-things-she-carried-book-excerpt-history-purse-america\/\">Ms. Magazine<\/a>. Casey, director of the Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and professor of history, says purses represent far more than fashion statements. &#8220;Unlike items of apparel placed directly on the body, purses provide an extension of the body, allowing generations of women to carry a miniature version of the home that they could fill with tools to cope with the challenges of a shifting landscape,&#8221; she writes.<\/p>\n<p>Casey explores pivotal moments in American history where purses, bags and sacks played roles as &#8220;objects with agency&#8221; and &#8220;helped disparate carriers improve their lives and, in some cases, even emancipate themselves from marginal positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman History Professor Kathleen Casey&#8217;s new book opens up the rich history of bags, sacks and purses and the key role they played in America&#8217;s past. Ms. Magazine publishes an excerpt from the book launched Aug. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6,3478,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-ms-magazine","category-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38902"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38910,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38902\/revisions\/38910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}