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Aching for beauty : footbinding in China
- Author
- Wang, Ping, 1957-
- Title
- Aching for beauty : footbinding in China / Wang Ping.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
- Description
- xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Footbinding. Social conditions--China. Personal beauty. Body image--Female.
- ISBN
- 0816636052 (hc : alk. paper) 0816636060 (pbk. : alk. paper)