Details

Edition

First edition.

Description

1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages)

text txt rdacontent

computer c rdamedia

online resource cr rdacarrier

Series

JSTOR EBA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Seeking status, avoiding shame -- Chapter 1. The Qing conquest and footbinding -- Chapter 2. The Taiwan Census of 1905 -- Chapter 3. The 1915 Prohibition -- Chapter 4. Footbinding for marriage -- Chapter 5. Regional variations among the Hoklo Fujianese -- Chapter 6. Women's labor in agriculture -- Chapter 7. Women's labor in handicrafts -- Chapter 8. Banner women and civilian women in the Northeast -- Conclusion: The tyranny of fashion -- Notes -- Chinese character glossary.

Note

Description based on Project MUSE; title from digital cover (viewed on February 21, 2019).

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Footbinding -- China -- History.

Women -- Employment -- China.

Women -- China -- Social conditions.

Bandage des pieds -- Chine -- Histoire.

Femmes -- Chine -- Conditions sociales.

HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming.

HISTORY / Asia / China

Footbinding. (OCoLC)fst00931452

Women -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01176715

Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947

China. (OCoLC)fst01206073

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Other Form:

Print version: Shepherd, John Robert author. Footbinding as fashion. First edition. Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295744414 (DLC) 2018012491

ISBN

9780295744421 electronic book

0295744421 electronic book

9780295744414 hardcover ; acid free paper

9780295744407