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In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. It also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working as an index of changing times. This book offers a fresh perspective on this history and a new focus on the ever-changing experience of Australian rural life. It argues that the country girl has not only been a long-standing counterpart to the Australian bush man she has, more importantly, figured as

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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