Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China

by Laurel Boussen, Hill Gates, Laurel Bossen

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799555
• ISBN13: 9780804799553
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"