Hua Hsu, “What’s in Your Pockets? : For the past five hundred years, their evolution has reflected attitudes about privacy and decorum, gender and power, and what it means to be cool.”, The New Yorker, Sept 18 2023: "...Maybe what you’re hiding is your own anxiety. “Pockets give you something to do with your hands,” Carlson writes, and “that can be a boon when you find yourself at some gathering and realize that your hands are likely to betray your nervousness.” Symbolically, many of us aspire after pockets that are fat, not flat. Yet a bulging pocket quickly tips toward the unsightly—the outline of an iPhone in a pair of skinny jeans—or even the concupiscent. “Is that a gun in your pocket,” Mae West asked in “Sextette,” “or are you just happy to see me?”..."
POCKETS: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close, by Hannah Carlson हे पुस्तक सप्टेंबर २०२३ मध्ये प्रसिद्ध झाले.
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