Bound feet, young hands : tracking the demise of footbinding in village China / Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates.

Bound feet, young hands : tracking the demise of footbinding in village China / Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates.

9781503601079 (electronic book)
1503601072 (electronic book)
9780804799553
0804799555

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

©2017

English

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GT498.F66 B67 2017eb

391.4/130951

Footbinding was common in China until the early 20th century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? Here, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands.

Footbinding was common in China until the early 20th century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? Here, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands.

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