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Chinese footbinding; the history of a curious erotic custom. / by Levy, Howard S.(Howard Seymour),1923-(CARDINAL)178923;
Bibliography: pages 329-338.
Subjects: Footbinding.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding / by Ko, Dorothy,1957-(CARDINAL)683706;
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 301-320) and index.pt. 1. The body exposed -- 1. Gigantic histories of the nation in the globe : the rhetoric of Tianzu, 1880s-1910s -- 2. The body inside out : the practice of Fangzu, 1900s-1930s -- 3. The bound foot as antique : connoisseurship in an age of disavowal, 1930s-1941 -- pt. 2. The body concealed -- 4. From ancient texts to current customs : in search of footbinding's origins -- 5. The erotics of place : male desires and the imaginary geography of the Northwest -- 6. Cinderella's dreams : the burden and uses of the female body
Subjects: Footbinding;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The three-inch golden lotus / by Feng, Jicai.(CARDINAL)719019; Wakefield, David,1950-(CARDINAL)881330; Goldblatt, Howard,1939-(CARDINAL)520039;
A poor girl rises to high social status in China because of her unusually small feet. When her position is threatened by reformers out to abolish foot-binding she fights them. A study in social change.1040L
Subjects: Allegories.; Fiction.; Footbinding;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Every step a lotus : shoes for bound feet / by Ko, Dorothy,1957-(CARDINAL)683706; Bata Shoe Museum Foundation.(CARDINAL)358959;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Footbinding; Shoes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ties that bind, ties that break / by Namioka, Lensey.(CARDINAL)708684;
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Gender roles.; Footbinding; Individuality; Sex role;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ties that bind, ties that break / by Namioka, Lensey.(CARDINAL)708684;
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.830LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Footbinding; Sex role; Individuality; Gender roles.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The Binding Chair, or, A Visit From the Foot Emancipation Society : a novel / by Harrison, Kathryn.(CARDINAL)358322;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Interracial marriage; Married women; Footbinding;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bound / by Napoli, Donna Jo,1948-(CARDINAL)351376;
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound to be alone and unmarried, with no parents to arrange for a suitable husband. Dubbed "Lazy One" by her stepmother, Xing Xing spends her days taking care of her half sister, Wei Ping, who cannot walk because of her foot bindings, the painful but compulsory tradition for girls who are fit to be married. Even so, Xing Xing is content, for now, to practice her gift for poetry and calligraphy, to tend to the mysterious but beautiful carp in her garden, and to dream of a life unbound by the laws of family and society. But all of this is about to change as the time for the village's annual festival draws near, and Stepmother, who has spent nearly all of the family's money, grows desperate to find a husband for Wei Ping. Xing Xing soon realizes that this greed and desperation may threaten not only her memories of the past, but also her dreams for the future. In this searing story, Donna Jo Napoli, acclaimed author of Beast and Breath, delves into the roots of the Cinderella myth and unearths a tale as powerful as it is familiar.800LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Stepmothers; Footbinding; Sex role; Gender roles.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 21
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Splendid slippers : a thousand years of an erotic tradition / by Jackson, Beverley.(CARDINAL)675609;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-180) and index.
Subjects: Footbinding; Foot; Women; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Snow Flower and the secret fan [sound recording] / by See, Lisa.; Song, Janet.;
Read by Janet Song.Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu ("women's writing"). They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become "old sames" at the tender age of seven. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Audiobooks.; Reminiscing in old age; Female friendship; Women; Married women; Older women; Footbinding; Childbirth; Secrecy;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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