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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Wang, Ping, 1957-     Subjects     Footbinding -- China -- History.     Women -- China -- Social conditions.     Beauty, Personal -- China -- History.     Body image in women -- China -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wang, Ping, 1957-       by title:      Aching for beauty [e...         MARC Display

Aching for beauty [electronic resource] : footbinding in China / Wang Ping. by Wang, Ping, 1957- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000. Subjects Footbinding -- China -- History.   Women -- China -- Social conditions.   Beauty, Personal -- China -- History.   Body image in women -- China -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5A202CA8-FD64-4384-AA48-92D0A8433A03 This title is available online; click here to access ISBN:  9780816691722 (electronic bk.) 081669172X (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xiv, 265 p.) : ill. Contents:  Three-inch golden lotuses : achieving beauty through violence -- A brief history of footbinding -- Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman -- Edible beauty : food and foot fetishes in China -- Silken slippers : footbinding in Chinese erotica -- Binding, weaving, chatting : female bonding and writing -- From golden lotus to Prime Minister : a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth -- The fabric of masquerade. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Wang Ping interprets the mystery of footbinding as part of a womanly heritage - "a roaring ocean current of female language and culture." She claims that footbinding should not be viewed merely as a function of men's oppression of women, but rather as a phenomenon of male and female desire deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture."--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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