Author: Ko, Dorothy

Price: $34.95

Category:Asian History
Publication Date:2011-10-04T00:00:01Z
Pages:386
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0520253906
ISBN:13:9780520253902
Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.