03809nam 22006975 450 991015462840332120210111153534.01-5036-0107-210.1515/9781503601079(CKB)4340000000018499(StDuBDS)EDZ0001659770(DE-B1597)564760(DE-B1597)9781503601079(MiAaPQ)EBC4749833(OCoLC)1178769758(Au-PeEL)EBL4749833(CaPaEBR)ebr11306710(OCoLC)965157652(EXLCZ)99434000000001849920200723h20202017 fg engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierBound Feet, Young Hands Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China /Hill Gates, Laurel BossenStanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]©20171 online resource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)Previously issued in print: 2017.0-8047-9955-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Questions About Footbinding -- Chapter Two. Seeking Answers: Research Methods and Fieldwork -- Chapter Three. North China Plain -- Chapter Four. Northwest China -- Chapter Five. Southwest China -- Chapter Six. Bound Feet Across China -- Appendix A: Tables -- Appendix B: Equations: Logistic Regression Results -- Notes -- References -- Index Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.FootbindingChinaFootbindingEconomic aspectsChinaRural girlsEmploymentChinaRural womenEmploymentChinaHandicraft industriesChinaRural girlsChinaSocial life and customsRural womenChinaSocial life and customsChinaRural conditionsElectronic books.FootbindingFootbindingEconomic aspectsRural girlsEmploymentRural womenEmploymentHandicraft industriesRural girlsSocial life and customs.Rural womenSocial life and customs.391.4130951Bossen Laurel, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1248128Gates Hill, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154628403321Bound Feet, Young Hands2893058UNINA