Aching for beauty footbinding in China /

"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 fe...

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Main Author: Wang, Ping, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
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260 |a Minneapolis :  |b University of Minnesota Press,  |c c2000. 
300 |a xiv, 265 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index. 
520 1 |a "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. 
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