Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding
Title:
Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding
Author:
Ko, Dorothy, 1957-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005
Physical Description:
xix, 332 pages : illustrations, [13] leaves of plates ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
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ISBN:
9780520218840
Format :
Book
