LEADER 03809nam 22006975 450 001 9910154628403321 005 20210111153534.0 010 $a1-5036-0107-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503601079 035 $a(CKB)4340000000018499 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001659770 035 $a(DE-B1597)564760 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503601079 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4749833 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769758 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4749833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11306710 035 $a(OCoLC)965157652 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000018499 100 $a20200723h20202017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBound Feet, Young Hands $eTracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China /$fHill Gates, Laurel Bossen 210 1$aStanford, CA : $cStanford University Press, $d[2020] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-8047-9955-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tMaps, Figures, and Tables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter One. Questions About Footbinding -- $tChapter Two. Seeking Answers: Research Methods and Fieldwork -- $tChapter Three. North China Plain -- $tChapter Four. Northwest China -- $tChapter Five. Southwest China -- $tChapter Six. Bound Feet Across China -- $tAppendix A: Tables -- $tAppendix B: Equations: Logistic Regression Results -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aFootbinding 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. 606 $aFootbinding$zChina 606 $aFootbinding$xEconomic aspects$zChina 606 $aRural girls$xEmployment$zChina 606 $aRural women$xEmployment$zChina 606 $aHandicraft industries$zChina 606 $aRural girls$zChina$xSocial life and customs 606 $aRural women$zChina$xSocial life and customs 607 $aChina$xRural conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFootbinding 615 0$aFootbinding$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aRural girls$xEmployment 615 0$aRural women$xEmployment 615 0$aHandicraft industries 615 0$aRural girls$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aRural women$xSocial life and customs. 676 $a391.4130951 700 $aBossen$b Laurel, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01248128 702 $aGates$b Hill, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154628403321 996 $aBound Feet, Young Hands$92893058 997 $aUNINA