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Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan

Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan

Paperback

Series: Routledge Contemporary China

AnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1138104213
ISBN13: 9781138104211
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 24 2017
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with almost 5,000 women, this book examines footbinding as Sichuan women remember it from the final years of the empire and the troubled times before the 1949 revolution. It focuses on two key questions: what motivated parents to maintain this custom, and how significant was girls' work in China's final pre-industrial century? In answering these questions, Hill Gates shows how footbinding was a form of labor discipline in the first half of the twentieth century in China, when it was a key institution in a now much-altered political economy.

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