Cinderella's sisters: a revisionist history of footbinding

Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.

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1. Verfasser: Ko, Dorothy 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2005
Schriftenreihe:Philip A. Lilienthal Asian Studies imprint
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Zusammenfassung:Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references ( p. 301-320) and index
Beschreibung:xix, 332 S. Ill.
ISBN:0520218841

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