Footbinding
Subtitle: a Jungian engagement with Chinese culture and psychology
By: Shirley See Yan Ma
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415485050; 9780415485067
Description: "In this book Shirley See Yan Ma provides a Jungian perspective on the Chinese tradition of footbinding and considers how it can be used as a metaphor for the suffering of women and the repression of the feminine, as well as a symbol for hope, creativity and spiritual transformation. Drawing on personal history, popular myths, literature, and work with clients, this book discusses how modern women feel their feet bound symbolically, as though by this ancient practice."--[book cover].
Table of contents: title: First glimpse of the Golden Lotus; title: The Shang empress-fox and her feet; title: The Confucian way; title: A pearl of great price; title: Xi Wang Mu : the queen mother of the West; title: Yexian : the Chinese Cinderella; title: Chiu Chin, the beheaded martyr; title: Ruby and her new vision; title: Julia Ching : a journey from east to west and back again; title: Jade : unbinding and restoring her feet; title: Reflections on the Golden Lotus.