Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands.
Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.
Автор: Carter Anne Laurel Название: Rocky Waters ISBN: 177306097X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781773060972 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16510.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or "peasant foods"), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions-sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories-this culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.
Автор: Hill Anne E. Название: A`Ja Wilson ISBN: 1728436621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781728436623 Издательство: Sage Publications Цена: 36770.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Annie Hill has finally escaped her ex-husband, Jason, a paranoid sociopath, but she and her two young ones have no money and no place to stay. She finds enough help to afford an apartment, but it is infested with roaches-and it's right above a domestic abuser.
Annie hates hearing what the man does to Alice, his girlfriend. Annie wants to move but can't afford it, and her attorney has advised her to stay put in order to demonstrate mental stability to the courts. But Annie calls the police on the abuser, whose attentions are now turned toward her.
As she copes with the family's new living arrangements, Annie tackles the problems of divorce court. Jason wants to retain all of their property and have full custody of their young children, something Annie cannot allow. But this is the 1970s and 1980s, and an antifeminist backlash is underway, destroying Annie's credibility in the eyes of the law. As the proceedings stretch from months into years, it seems no claim that Jason levels against Annie is too absurd to be taken seriously-and Annie has no idea how much danger her abusive neighbor poses to her and her daughter.
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