{"id":39555,"date":"2025-09-30T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39555"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:42:45","slug":"caseys-book-about-purses-featured-in-town-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/caseys-book-about-purses-featured-in-town-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey&#8217;s book about purses featured in TOWN magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/towncarolina.com\/the-things-dr.-kathleen-casey-carries\">TOWN<\/a> magazine features an interview with Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/kathleen-casey\/\">Kathleen B. Casey<\/a>, author of &#8220;The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America.&#8221; The magazine taps Furman Distinguished University Public Historian and Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/courtney-tollison\/\">Courtney Tollison<\/a> to conduct the interview with Casey, professor of history and director of the Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the university.<\/p>\n<p>Tollison asks Casey about what inspired her work, whether she prefers research or writing, the message the purse conveys, and what Casey&#8217;s elevator speech for the book might be. &#8220;Ultimately, Casey says, &#8220;this book reveals the surprising ways in which purses became toolkits that women and others cleverly used to construct their identities and execute their agendas across nearly 200 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOWN magazine asks Courtney Tollison to interview Kathleen B. Casey about her new book that explores the surprising history of the purse in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":39556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,6,1645,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-town-magazine","category-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39555","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=39555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39559,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39555\/revisions\/39559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}