China Foot Binding

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Published: In the year of 2007
Author: Donna Drucker
Author's cited sources:

Ko, Dorothy. 2001. Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ko, Dorothy. 2005. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Foot Binding . Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wang, Ping. 2000. Aching for Beauty: Foot Binding in China . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Title of Article: Foot Binding

- Belived that women's feet should be small.

- Binded the females feet at a young age, around seven years old, and it was very painful.

-Symbolized that beauty is pain.

- The end result had hoof like qualities.

-Yexian, the Chineese Cinderella, dropped a TINY shoe while leaving a banquet, eventually leading to a royal marrage.  Foot binding was based off of this story. 

- Foot Binding ended in 1999.

- Foot binding refomed the foot, bending and streching the ligaments and muscles without breaking any bones.