Footbinding was an infamous custom of the Han Chinese people used to modify the size and shape of feet in women. Binding started at a very young age and gradually deformed the natural growth of the feet, which was not only a painful process but also a lifetime source of inconvenience and...
Footbinding became the most sexualized objectification of women in Chinese history, while creating a distinct aversion in Western observers. Despite much prurient attention to Indian and Arab women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, western travellers simply did not see Chinese women as erotic...
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Women's foot-binding in Ming and Qing Dynasties is a sex matter and also has the purpose of making distinctions between different nationalities,which is obviously different from the aesthetic pursuit in Song Dynasty.Foot-binding in Ming Dynasty reflects that the moral degeneration of the society is...
The aim of this study is to understand the influences of the social custom of foot binding on female osteoporosis by means of comparing and analyzing the lumbar vertebrae and hip bone mass difference...
today. The reason for women binding their feet went deeper than fashion and reflected the role of women in Chinese society. It was necessary then in China for a woman to have bound feet in order to achieve a good life. The exact way foot binding started is not fully known. Several legen...
The tiny feet of women who had their feet bound since childhood in China were deemed attractive, erotic, and a sure way to find a rich husband. Foot binding was painful, but practiced in old China.
Chinese Foot binding Background Information In the tenth century in China, a prince began the practice of foot binding because he loved the small 'lily feet' of his concubine. Thus traditional Chinese values for over 1000 years dictated that the feet of young girls should be bound to keep ...
A study of the aesthetic Chinese foot-binding The ideal that 'beautiful woman have small feet originated in the Donghan era, and gained momentum during future generations and eventually turned into a e... Soh,Hwang-oak - 《Journal of Korean Traditional Costume》 被引量: 0发表: 2006年 The ...
in which case the woman feels afterward repaid by having smaller and more delicate feet. Each time the bandage is taken off, the foot is kneaded to make the joints more flexible, and is then bound up again as quickly as possible with a fresh bandage, which is drawn up more tightly. ...