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19 mar 2007 · Footbinding was first banned in 1912, but some continued binding their feet in secret. Some of the last survivors of this barbaric practice are still living in Liuyicun, a village in Southern...
19 mar 2007 · Footbinding was first banned in 1912, but some continued binding their feet in secret. Some of the last survivors of this barbaric practice are still living in Liuyicun, a village in Southern China's Yunnan province.
12 gru 2022 · Millions of women in China - for over 1,000 years - practiced a brutal fashion trend in which they mutilated their feet through the act of "foot-binding." It's dangerous, painful and an example of how persistent and pervasive social pressures can be when it comes to fashion.
22 paź 2024 · From Footbinding to Play Dates. By Let Grow on Oct 22, 2024. Read Time: 3 minutes. We no longer live in an era of footbinding, writes Let Grow Co-Founder Peter Gray, the psychologist who studies the importance of mixed-age, unsupervised play.
19 paź 2018 · Based on interviews with thousands of elderly women who experienced foot-binding, the study suggests it was used as a way to keep girls — in some cases as young as 5 — on task producing handicrafts, such as spinning thread or weaving cloth, which could be sold to support their families.
This talk explores the 1000-year practice of "footbinding" in ethnically Han Chinese families, involving modifying young girls' feet by wrapping the toes under the sole, often resulting in broken toes. Two main hypotheses—Labor Market and Evolutionary Social Sciences—are considered for explaining the origins, maintenance, and cessation of footbinding. This talk presents evidence from ...
5 sie 2012 · Explores the facts and the fiction surrounding the Chinese custom of breaking and binding the feet of girls into the shape of a pointed lotus bud, and includes photographs of the exquisite, tiny slippers worn by women with bound and deformed feet.
