Aching for Beauty
Subtitle: Footbinding in China
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: October 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780816636051
Subjects: Asian studies; Cultural studies; Women's studies; Sociology Of Women; History; Manners And Customs; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Sociology; China; Asia - China; Customs & Traditions; Beauty, Personal; Women; Footbinding; Social conditions
Description: "Wang Ping interprets the mystery of footbinding as part of a womanly heritage - "a roaring ocean current of female language and culture." She claims that footbinding should not be viewed merely as a function of men's oppression of women, but rather as a phenomenon of male and female desire deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture."--BOOK JACKET.