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Aching for beauty : footbinding in China / Wang Ping.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Ping, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Footbinding--China--History.
- Footbinding.
- Women--China--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Beauty, Personal--China--History.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Body image in women--China--History.
- Body image in women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9172-X
- OCLC:
- 191818210
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