Work, not sex? The real reason Chinese women bound their feet
Katie Hunt
persisted because it ensured that young girls sat still and worked at a boring, sedentary task for many hours each day, she said, and it died out only when manufactured cloth and foreign imports eliminated the economic value of handwork.
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