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Author: 维格道洛娃,Х.А

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Bound feet, young hands : tracking the demise of footbinding in village China /

"Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a statu...

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Main Authors: Bossen, Laurel, 1945- (Author)
Group Author: Gates, Hill
Published: Stanford University Press,
Publisher Address: Stanford, California :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Footbinding > China.
Footbinding > Economic aspects > China.
Rural girls > Employment > China.
Rural women > Employment > China.
Handicraft industries > China.
Rural girls > China > Social life and customs.
Rural women > China > Social life and customs.
China > Rural conditions.
Summary: "Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, 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. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom"--The publisher.
Carrier Form: xv, 247 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
ISBN: 9780804799553 (hardback) :
0804799555 (hardback)
Index Number: GT498
CLC: K892.29
Call Number: K892.29/B745
Contents: Questions about footbinding -- Seeking answers : research methods and fieldwork -- The North China Plain -- Northwest China -- Southwest China -- Bound feet across China.

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