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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828850003321

Autore

Wang Ping <1957->

Titolo

Aching for beauty : footbinding in China / / Wang Ping

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-9172-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

391.4/1

Soggetti

Footbinding - China - History

Women - China - Social conditions

Beauty, Personal - China - History

Body image in women - China - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.