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Femininity --- Footbinding --- Jungian psychology --- Sex role
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Chinese examination essays --- Chinese fiction --- Footbinding --- Opium abuse --- Short stories, Chinese
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Beauty, Personal --- Body image in women --- Footbinding --- Women --- History --- Social conditions
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Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644–1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls’ feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.
Footbinding --- Women --- Binding of feet --- Foot --- Foot-binding --- Deformities, Artificial --- History. --- Employment --- Social conditions. --- Artificial deformities --- Binding --- Abnormalities --- S11/0710 --- S11/0742 --- History --- Social conditions --- China: Social sciences--Women and gender: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Footbinding
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A poor girl rises to high social status in China because of her unusually small feet. When her position is threatened by reformers out to abolish foot-binding she fights them. A study in social change.
S16/0430 --- Footbinding --- Binding of feet --- Foot --- Foot-binding --- Deformities, Artificial --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern novels: texts and translations --- Artificial deformities --- Binding --- Abnormalities --- Bandage des pieds --- Fiction --- Romans --- China --- Chine --- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Bis ins 20. Jahrhundert wurden chinesischen Mädchen die Füße gebunden, um diese möglichst klein zu halten - eine Praxis, die mit Schmerzen, aber auch mit Anerkennung und Hoffnung auf sozialen Aufstieg verbunden war. Externe Beobachter*innen blickten mit Abscheu, Mitleid und exotistischer Faszination auf diese Frauen, gleichzeitig gab es aber immer wieder Vergleiche mit eigenen Moden, vor allem Stöckelschuhen und Korsett.Die Beiträger*innen nähern sich der Praxis des Füßebindens aus kulturwissenschaftlicher, sozialanthropologischer und (medizin-)historischer Perspektive. Sie nehmen die agency der Frauen ernst und fragen nach den Wechselwirkungen von Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmungen.
Footbinding --- Binding of feet --- Foot --- Foot-binding --- Deformities, Artificial --- Artificial deformities --- Binding --- Abnormalities --- Body. --- Bound Feet. --- China. --- Colonialism. --- Corsett. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Emancipation. --- Europe. --- Fashion Studies. --- Gender History. --- Gender. --- Global History. --- Lotus Shoes. --- Practical Museography. --- Women.
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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.
Footbinding --- Rural girls --- Rural women --- Handicraft industries --- S11/0480 --- S11/0710 --- S11/0742 --- Women --- Country girls --- Girls --- Rural children --- Binding of feet --- Foot --- Foot-binding --- Deformities, Artificial --- Economic aspects --- Employment --- Social life and customs. --- China: Social sciences--Rural life, rural studies: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Footbinding --- Artificial deformities --- Binding --- Abnormalities --- China --- Rural conditions. --- Social life and customs
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Human body --- Feminism --- Footbinding --- Women --- Women's rights --- Corps humain --- Feminisme --- Bandage des pieds --- Femmes --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Droits --- S11/0720 --- S11/0742 --- S11/0710 --- Body, Human --- -Feminism --- -Footbinding --- -Women --- -Women's rights --- -Rights of women --- Human rights --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Binding of feet --- Foot --- Foot-binding --- Deformities, Artificial --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- China: Social sciences--Women's emancipation movement: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Footbinding --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- -History --- Social conditions --- Civil rights --- Rights of women --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Artificial deformities --- Binding --- Abnormalities --- Emancipation --- -China: Social sciences--Women's emancipation movement: general and before 1949 --- History
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