Cinderella's Sisters
Author | : Dorothy Ko |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520253902 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520253906 |
Rating | : 4/5 (906 Downloads) |
Download or read book Cinderella's Sisters written by Dorothy Ko and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.