{"id":40858,"date":"2026-01-30T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40858"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:31:17","slug":"kathleen-b-casey-offers-excerpt-from-book-about-purses-in-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/kathleen-b-casey-offers-excerpt-from-book-about-purses-in-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen B. Casey offers excerpt from book about purses in Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38740\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38740 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 B. 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\">Casey&#8217;s book was released in August 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An excerpt from &#8220;The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America,&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/kathleen-casey\/\">Kathleen B. Casey<\/a> appears in Medium, a publication of Oxford Academic. Casey, a professor of history and director of the Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, writes about the purse in the context of civil rights, highlighting how Rosa Parks and her purse played into a larger movement. &#8220;Black and white civil rights activists both deployed purses as political tools,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Oral histories, memoirs, diaries, monuments, and photographs reveal how they used purses in clever and creative ways to challenge existing power structures.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Medium, Casey reveals how a simple gesture involving Rosa Parks and a purse figures into the Civil Rights Movement and how both Black and white women used purses to &#8220;challenge existing power structures.&#8221;<\/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":[42,6,3510,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-medium","category-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40858","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=40858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40860,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40858\/revisions\/40860"}],"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=40858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}