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| | Foot fetishism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Another theory is that the shape of the human foot is visually similar to that of the curves found on the human body, particularly the female hips (again explaining the tendency of foot fetishists to be primarily heterosexual men). | | | A foot fetishist can be sexually aroused by viewing, handling, licking, tickling, sucking, sniffing or kissing the feet and/or toes of another person, or by having another person doing the same to their own feet. | | | Foot fetishism is a pronounced fetishistic sexual interest in human feet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_fetishism
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| | CHINESE FOOT BINDING |
| | The main point of the anti-foot binding society was that the pain a woman went through in the foot binding process and through her life was an obstacle to her education. | | | To fully understand a practice such as foot binding we have to practice cultural relativism. | | | The feet had to be massaged and given hot and cold compresses to help relieve the pain and help improve circulation. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ca/beekeeper/foot.html
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| | Foot binding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | All modern societies would treat the behavior as child abuse and punish it accordingly. | | | After years of this process, the bones would heal in the position of the binding, and the girl would no longer feel pain. | | | The side view of a bound foot of an adult Chinese woman. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
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| | Chinese culture: foot binding |
| | First the inner foot of the child was washed in hot water and then massaged. | | | In the chinese culture women were subjected to the painful process of foot binding. | | | This process deformed the foot into a tiny doll-like replica. |
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http://ksks.essortment.com/chineseculture_rdpp.htm
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Chinese Foot Binding |
| | This of course means that to achieve these golden ideals, the foot has to be contorted to the extent that the soles are extremely concave, and that the foot is in practice literally folded in two. | | | It wasn't until 1895 that the first anti-foot binding society was formed in Shanghai, whose members emphasised the point that the ordeal a woman went through in the painful process was an obstacle to her education. | | | This is allegedly to soften the tissue and bones of the foot to facilitate manipulation. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A1155872
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| | Chinese Foot Binding |
| | After she received a foot massage, the four smallest toes on each foot were broken (Chinese Foot Binding 2) This was not even the worst of the pain. | | | The mother who was the one to bind the feet, and usually started the process late in the fall or winter, so the foot would be numb and the pain would not be as severe. | | | Some girls made it through their youth without having any medical problems; yet the time when most women had health problems due to foot binding was in their later years. |
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http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/China/04/hutchins/hutchins.htm
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| | DAYBREAK - Foot-Binding Custom Has Caused Disabilities in Chinese Women |
| | The practice of foot binding began in the Sung dynasty (960-976 BC), reportedly to imitate an imperial concubine who was required to dance with her feet bound. | | | The UCSF study, part of a larger study of osteoporosis in China, is the first to look at the prevalence and consequences of foot binding, according to lead author Steven R. Cummings, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and epidemiology and biostatistics. | | | They found 38 percent of the women 80 and older and 18 percent of those in their 70s had bound foot deformities. |
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http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1997/11/1104_foot.htm
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| | Foot-Binding |
| | The practice of foot binding was supported by people at that time by saying that it was good for health and fertility. | | | In some areas, foot binding was not even practiced, such as some peasant communities and the poor families in which women played an important role in farming ( | | | Therefore, Foot binding was the symbol of dignity, because it showed the ability to sustain good family and social values ( |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc100/Group3/Foot-Binding.html
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| | Chinese Foot Binding |
| | Binding created a deep cleft -- essentially it folded the sole of the foot in half by bringing the heel and the front of the foot together. | | | This cleft was considered a deeply private, sensual, erotic part of the body, and the ritual of unbinding and performing hygiene to the foot and cleft, was very intimate, done in private with a trusted maidservant. | | | There were no bones broken or removed in the process. |
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http://www.geocities.com/legcaliper/4lotus.htm
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| | 1,000 years of Footbinding |
| | During the first two years of the foot binding process, the feet were very painful. | | | Most of the literature discusses the 3” Lotus foot as the ideal and, by design, the most crippling; but this was only practical for elite women who did not need to work. | | | Although most men found the mystery of the covered bound foot to be sexually exciting, there were those who preferred to use the foot as an alternative vagina. |
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http://www.conniewrite.com/footbinding.html
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| | Chinese Foot Binding |
| | We have all heard of the practice of foot binding prevalent in ancient China but not many of us are probably aware of how severe and painful this practice was. | | | There seems to be no conclusive evidence to it but there are various legends associated with foot binding. | | | To give an extremely graphic account, the feet had to first be washed and massaged, after which, all except the first toe were broken and tied tightly under the foot. |
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http://www.asianartmall.com/chinesefootbinding.htm
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| | The Binding Chair |
| | Born in 1884, May must submit to foot binding as a child, and thereafter endures constant pain and the constriction of her freedom. | | | The Binding Chair is far-flung, geographically and emotionally, and never quite coalesces, but perhaps the author was intentionally seeking to make a story about the Chinese and the Jews that has a feeling of diaspora. | | | One of May's clients is her future husband Arthur, a member of the Foot Emancipation Society (an antifootbinding group), who finds himself in the grip of his own perversity: "The last loop of cloth fell away from May's foot and revealed a warm claw of flesh, luminous and slick and folded in upon itself. |
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http://kathrynharrison.com/bindingchair.htm
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| | East (Chinese) Bound Feet vs. West (French) High Heels |
| | While Chinese foot binding and other forms of body modification are not necessarily good or right to do, they usually add color to the lives of the human beings involved. | | | Also, there are some forms of body modification being practiced by men and women today that Chinese foot binding is mild in comparison to. | | | One can always find fault(s), feel sorrow and condemn anything that is unnatural, especially Chinese foot binding and other forms of body modification. |
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http://www.2heels.com/b.html
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| | However long or short the slots'arc length, within the range of rotation thereby defined and delimited, the foot plate 56 can be rotated to virtually any position, and is not, as in the prior art, restricted to a finite number of positions defined by a finite number of discrete, non-continuous points. | | | The pads 92 and 94 may be formed of any suitable material preferably having shock-absorbing characteristics, such as rubber. | | | The range of plan-view angular rotational orientation adjustment can be varied depending on the particular application. |
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http://www.wipo.int/cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=00/09222.000224&ELEMENT_SET=DECL
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| | City Pages - Of Human Bondage |
| | And, though Wang uses occidental literary criticism to uncover her subject, she also posits foot binding as something distinct from Western mores: Through foot binding, the mother transmits an entire cultural history to her daughter. | | | Though Wang draws striking parallels between foot binding and Western rituals like cosmetic surgery, body art, and corseting, Aching for Beauty is also steeped in the literature of China, much of which remains unavailable in English translation. | | | Seen through Western eyes, foot binding, which was outlawed during the Cultural Revolution, might seem an archaic, barbarous ritual. |
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http://www.citypages.com/databank/21/1038/article9086.asp
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| | Women in China |
| | Bone density was found to be lower both in the hip and in the spine for the foot bound women. | | | One clear reason for infection was simply the dramatic effect the bone breaking had on the foot. | | | The research by Dr. Hideo Tsunoda suggests that because weight is not even dispersed, but is placed on a three to four inch foot, the body tries to overcompensate by placing more weight around the pelvic area than what it normally should. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc100/Group1/Lauren/Lauren.htm
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| | CliffsNotes::The Good Earth:Book Summary and Study Guide |
| | As with Wang Lung's daughter, who wept from the pain of her bindings when her mother tightened the bandages too tightly, it is easy to see that the entire process was a very painful one. | | | The foot was then carefully wound up with the material. | | | Thus even Wang Lung, basically a mere farmer, represents the Chinese's long tradition of considering small feet to be associated with elegance and royalty. |
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http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-184,pageNum-21.html
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| | CHCP Golden Legacy Curriculum: Bound Feet |
| | First her foot was washed in hot water and massaged. | | | Few Chinese women and girls who came to California had their feet bound as small children in China, but those who did had to spend their lives with the tiny useless feet. | | | For young students, you may wish to change a few of the words that describe the way bound feet made women walk. |
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http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/Anthropology/ANT0201.html
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| | BIO 226W Nazareth College |
| | The process took two years, and by the time it was finished, the foot was useless for walking. | | | A badly bound foot was a sign of laziness. | | | For upperclass women, leisure time was spent making these lotus shoes, and the embroidery often told a story. |
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http://www.naz.edu:9000/~bio226w/cultural/cultures/BodyAlterations.htm
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| | footbinding |
| | For example, when he found the formula for a medicine that was given to girls to make their bones softer and easier to bind, he had it formulated at a traditional Chinese pharmacy. | | | "There were sexual reasons behind binding -- fetishism and other..." As he searched for the right word I tried to guess his thoughts. | | | The Manchus actually tried to stamp it out when they took power but failed, and some Manchu women even risked severe punishment to do it. |
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http://www.romanization.com/books/formosan_odyssey/footbinding.html
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| | Marie Vento: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise |
| | As time went on and the practice spread beyond the palace, the foot became so compressed that women usually hobbled about with difficulty, or had to lean on a wall or another person for support. | | | Sanctioned by tradition and exaggerated over time, the practice was supported and transmitted by women and believed to promote health and fertility, although the reality was that bound feet were malodorous and virtually crippling. | | | It is important to consider the practice without criticism in order to understand the symbolic and personal meanings of footbinding, which embraced a number of purposes. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/studpages/vento.html
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| | Church of Body Modification - Modern day foot binding |
| | I have chosen to concentrate on Chinese foot binding, I realise that it was outlawed in china and hasnt been practiced there for centuries, but I was wondering if there was any western communities/ individuals who may have adopted the practice? | | | Id appreciate any info on foot binding that I can get, especially on the people that still do it today, in china or elsewhere...that would be a great help | | | Also though it's been outlawed many Chinese women still have their feet bound. |
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http://www.uscobm.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=257
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| | Morbid Outlook - Lotus Foot |
| | The natural foot, often referred to as “lotus boat” or “duckfoot” was a social stigma and an obstacle to marriage. | | | Various sexual guides specify countless techniques involving the sexual use of the bound foot. | | | It is very possible that some Chinese women in their 70’s and 80’s may still have that deformed foot. |
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http://www.morbidoutlook.com/fashion/historical/2001_06_lotusfoot.html
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| | Untitled |
| | Another part of eroticism was that women with bound feet were thought to be like well-pruned trees in that the weight of the body was being shifted to just one point of the foot, just as a pruned tree has limbs manipulated to attain the desired effect. | | | To some, the cleft in the foot was treated like a vagina (Splendid Slippers 1997). | | | This caused gangreous skin, which could be later removed further shortening the feet (Splendid Slippers 1997). |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring99/wise
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| | Footbinding |
| | This made it impossible for women with bound feet and because the “need for family labor, including that of women, it made it impossible to exclude them from doing work in wet fields barefooted working against the binding of feet to smaller sizes.” (Turner 1997:450) Footbinding in the rice fields wasn’t very practical. |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/fall99/linzey/where.html
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| | The Ritual of Binding Feet - Chinese Culture |
| | Thus, women willingly participated in binding their own daughter's feet, despite knowing how painful the experience is firsthand. | | | While this whole ritual was painful and disturbing, we in the West cannot be too quick to judge. | | | The practice of foot binding lasted nearly a thousand years. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art29600.asp
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| | Why did foot binding begin? Ask MetaFilter |
| | Aside from using the foot itself for pleasure purposes, it seems that the kind of walking it requires is thought to tighten the vaginal muscles. | | | Plus a bound foot rendered a woman helpless and useless. | | | Chinese foot binding was certainly an atrocious, misogynist practice. |
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http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/34722
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| | The Straight Dope: What's the story on the ancient Chinese custom of binding women's feet? |
| | Bound feet were said to keep the woman's lower body tense during walking (what little she could manage), enlarging her buttocks and tightening her vagina, thereby increasing the male's sexual pleasure. | | | So today's breast fetish can't compare with the old Chinese foot fetish, complete with foot binding? | | | Foot binding was a cruel, painful process that began when a girl was around five years old. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a981023.html
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| | Chinese Foot Binding Golden Lotus Beauty Tactics Southern Tang Dynasty China |
| | The ancient tradition of foot binding in China, however, takes the "beauty is pain" concept to a whole new level. | | | At first, foot binding was something practiced only by those within the royal court but soon women of all social classes were eager to have dainty, "beautiful" and desirable feet. | | | From that day on, foot binding was often associated with the term golden lotus. |
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http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p2142.htm
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| | Footbinding |
| | (There was the saying: the smaller the feet, the more intense the sex urge.) Therefore marriages in Ta-t'ung (where binding is most effective) often take place earlier than elsewhere. | | | What are we willing to do to ourselves and to our children? | | | The toes were turned under so that I could see them on the inner and under side of the foot. |
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http://www.towson.edu/~loiselle/foot.html
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| | Chinese Foot Binding |
| | The story of foot binding is told from a woman's point of view. | | | Although visitors may focus on why the Han Chinese culture supported foot binding, they may also want to gain an appreciation for the handiwork of the shoes themselves. | | | The bandages were changed regularly, but were kept tightly wrapped around the woman's foot for a lifetime to maintain the tiny, tortured shape of the foot. |
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http://www.museumnetwork.com/features/01_15_01highlight_footbinding.asp
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| | The Chronicle: 11/23/2001: A Second Look at the Big Squeeze |
| | There's no getting around the fact that the bound foot was deformed, of course. | | | But she says the emphasis for both women and men was on the shoes, not the bound feet, and that is her focus, too. | | | In fact, she says, beginning in the 18th century, peasant daughters emulated the upper classes by binding, and although some Chinese people criticized the practice as frivolous, women with bound feet could and did work. |
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http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i13/13a01201.htm
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| | Chinese Foot Binding - Asia Finest Discussion Forum |
| | I guess I have to be thankful that I wasn't born in China during the time when foot binding was commonly practiced throughout China- gosh, it must have been painful! | | | First, the whole ugly process of foot binding began when a girl was about 4 years old. | | | I'm doing a research on Chinese Foot Binding. |
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http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42058
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| | Describe some of the changes that occurred to the foot as a result of the foot binding process. | | | What are some of the changes to walking that have been caused by foot binding? | | | List some of the complications of foot binding. |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/podiatry/pod12pbmlectures/chinesefootbindinganswers.doc
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| | Foot Binding - Asia Finest Discussion Forum |
| | no need for work so binding represents that your life is not for working. | | | the thought of binded feet from birth is very painful indeed... | | | like a long time ago i think these royal dancers binded their foot so they can dance elegently...then someone decided that every women should be like that...so then after when a young girl turn about 4 they have to start their foot binding until they are like 30 or something. |
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http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4694
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| | I believe it happens in some chinese cultures, and I think it still sometimes happent today. | | | They were taught that tiny feet are elegant. | | | Foot binding is supposed to be very painful because eventually the toes curl under the foot and the woman can no longer walk. |
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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~shannon/critical_tools/309k_spring_2002/annotator/rich/8_foot_binding.html
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| | Foot Binding |
| | The practice of foot binding lasted through Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties and was officially banned in 1911, when the Nationalist took over China. | | | The origin of foot binding can be traced back to the Five Dynasties. | | | This shape was kept by the binding of the foot. |
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http://www.yutopian.com/arts/five/FB.html
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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features |
| | With their feet bound, women walked with a "lotus gait" that tightened their pelvic muscles. | | | Beverley Jackson, in her book, "Splendid Slippers," points out that in some cases, women forbidden to bind their daughters' feet would wait until their husbands were out of town to start the process. | | | Contrary to belief that binding started in infancy, Jackson said it was started at age 6 to give the foot's arch time to develop. |
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http://starbulletin.com/98/03/10/features/story1.html
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| | Footbinding - Australian Museum's Body Art |
| | You can imagine, a six-year-old girl's feet and how delicate they were, but if they were tied very tightly and changed the natural shape, how painful it must be... | | | Mothers bound the feet of their daughters at around 5 years of age and gradually decreased the size of the child's foot over a period of months. | | | Another version suggests that the Empress had a club foot and insisted that all women bind their feet so that hers became the model for beauty in the court. |
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http://www.austmus.gov.au/bodyart/shaping/footbinding.htm
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| | Audio Reading: Kathryn Harrison |
| | "Foot binding was something of a surprise to me and came out of my research into Shanghai and China in general. | | | I was going to write a novel about a Western family in Shanghai and I never had planned to have a Chinese woman marry into the family and I had never had any particular interest in foot binding. | | | When I started doing research for the book, I was detoured by some pretty compelling accounts of foot binding and ended up pursuing it out of interest, not because I was intending to go there. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/specials/harrison.html
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| | Re: chinese foot binding |
| | In Response To: Re: chinese foot binding (slyguy) |
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http://www.tribalarts.com/cgi-bin/tribalarts/letterboard.pl?read=8261
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| | Centenarians tell of Taiwan's century, Memorable experiences from foot-binding to the 2-28 incident |
| | But I do not blame her because it was the responsibility of mothers to bind their daughters' feet," Chang added. | | | For more than 1,000 years until the Nationalist government prohibited the practice of foot-binding in 1911, girls with natural feet would be considered low in social class and thus could not make a good wife. | | | It's like...," Chang said, pausing with narrowing eyes and slightly bowed head to try to find the most suitable simile. |
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http://www.richmond.edu/~vwang/ps345/art28.htm
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| | I was just reading up on foot binding.. - VeggieBoards |
| | This reminds me of the book Wild Swans, which is an excellent read if you ever get the chance and goes back to the generations in which foot binding was a common practice. | | | If I'm not mistaken, the traditional Chinese woman's role was to care of the home. | | | I've got a fever, and the only cure is.. |
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http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=26046
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| | CHINESE FOOTBINDING |
| | Rossi, William A. The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe. | | | From the age of between three to seven, a young girl's feet were cloth bound forcing her four toes toward the heel to prevent growth-preferably allowing the foot to grow to only three-and-a-half inches. | | | Known for its erotic implications and representation of male domination, in a culture strongly influenced by symbolism, including dress as status, footbinding also represented civility and political resistance. |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nahl/students/601pathfinder-gutierrez.htm
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| | Also interesting that it’s a Chinese woman saving Chinese women, not a white man, as is usually the case in narratives where foot binding becomes symbolic of Chinese patriarchy. |
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http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~vnguyen/pages/Park.doc
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| | (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible. |
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