Aching for beauty [electronic resource] : footbinding in China / Wang Ping.

9780816636068
0816636052 (hc : alk. paper)
0816636060 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

English

xiv, 265 p. : ill.

GT498.F66 W36 2000eb

391.4/1

"Wang Ping interprets the mystery of footbinding as part of a womanly heritage - "a roaring ocean current of female language and culture." She claims that footbinding should not be viewed merely as a function of men's oppression of women, but rather as a phenomenon of male and female desire deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

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