Aching for beauty :
Wang, Ping, 1957-
Aching for beauty : footbinding in China / Wang Ping. - 1st Anchor Books ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 2002. - xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
Three-inch golden lotuses : achieving beauty through violence -- A brief history of footbinding -- Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman -- Edible beauty : food and foot fetishes in China -- Silken slippers : footbinding in Chinese erotica -- Binding, weaving, chatting : female bonding and writing -- From golden lotus to Prime Minister : a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth -- The fabric of masquerade.
0-385-72136-6
2001045761
Footbinding--History.--China
Women--Social conditions.--China
Beauty, Personal--History.--China
Body image in women--History.--China
GT498.F66 / W36 2002
DC 391.41 / P65a
Aching for beauty : footbinding in China / Wang Ping. - 1st Anchor Books ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 2002. - xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
Three-inch golden lotuses : achieving beauty through violence -- A brief history of footbinding -- Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman -- Edible beauty : food and foot fetishes in China -- Silken slippers : footbinding in Chinese erotica -- Binding, weaving, chatting : female bonding and writing -- From golden lotus to Prime Minister : a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth -- The fabric of masquerade.
0-385-72136-6
2001045761
Footbinding--History.--China
Women--Social conditions.--China
Beauty, Personal--History.--China
Body image in women--History.--China
GT498.F66 / W36 2002
DC 391.41 / P65a