TY - GEN AB - A pair of small feet -- three-inch golden lilies -- were once the male-designated yardstick for feminine beauty in China. A young girl s feet were broken and bound inwards along the instep, a process that caused excruciating pain. Systematically bound, day after day, the stunted feet began to take on the coveted look of that profoundly sensuous image, the lotus bulb. Today there are fewer than 400 women with bound feet among the 1.25 billion people of China. Most of them are over 80 years old. Some of these women tell us of the event that branded their lives with its singular mark. Once an erotic symbol of beauty and eligibility, the bound foot confronts us with a custom that subjugated women to a brutal beauty myth. AU - Joani, Tang Yuen Mei. AU - Tely, Fung Wing. CY - New York, NY : DA - 2004. ID - 1355729 KW - Footbinding KW - Women's issues LA - This edition in English. LK - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641270 N1 - Originally released as DVD. N1 - Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011). N2 - A pair of small feet -- three-inch golden lilies -- were once the male-designated yardstick for feminine beauty in China. A young girl s feet were broken and bound inwards along the instep, a process that caused excruciating pain. Systematically bound, day after day, the stunted feet began to take on the coveted look of that profoundly sensuous image, the lotus bulb. Today there are fewer than 400 women with bound feet among the 1.25 billion people of China. Most of them are over 80 years old. Some of these women tell us of the event that branded their lives with its singular mark. Once an erotic symbol of beauty and eligibility, the bound foot confronts us with a custom that subjugated women to a brutal beauty myth. PB - Filmakers Library, PP - New York, NY : PY - 2004. T1 - Chinese foot bindingthe vanishing lotus / TI - Chinese foot bindingthe vanishing lotus / UR - http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?FLON;1641270 ER -