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