Locating Footbinding: Variations across Class and Space in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century China.
In this article I look at footbinding as a social and cultural practice embedded in the daily life conditions of women and their families. I sketch a picture of variations based primarily on regional and class differences in nineteenth and early twentieth century practices of footbinding and in effo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Historical Sociology Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 444 - 480 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec97
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