{"id":38955,"date":"2025-08-13T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38955"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:42:45","slug":"history-professor-casey-joins-access-carolina-to-discuss-book-about-purses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/history-professor-casey-joins-access-carolina-to-discuss-book-about-purses\/","title":{"rendered":"History professor Casey joins &#8216;Access Carolina&#8217; to discuss book about purses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University &#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/kathleen-casey\/\">Kathleen B. Casey<\/a> joins Margaret Burnquist of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2025\/08\/12\/book-highlights-fascinating-history-purse\/\">Access Carolina<\/a>&#8221; to discuss her new book, &#8220;The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America.&#8221; Casey, a professor of history and director of the Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Furman, shares the nuanced role purses played in the last 200 years. More than a fashion accessory, purses, bags and sacks were at the center of disruptive moments across time and quietly revealed issues surrounding privacy, gender, civil rights, autonomy and more. On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2025\/08\/12\/book-highlights-fascinating-history-purse\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a> show, Casey also shares an <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2025\/08\/the-cultural-history-of-the-purse-timeline\/\">interactive timeline<\/a> of the purse she and Oxford University Press crafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Kathleen B. Casey reveals a historical and nuanced role purses played in American culture. She joins FOX Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;Access Carolina&#8221; to talk about &#8220;The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,42,6,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38955","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=38955"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38971,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38955\/revisions\/38971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}