Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan (Routledge Contemporary China Series, 123, Band 123) - Hardcover

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Gates, Hill

 
9780415525923: Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan (Routledge Contemporary China Series, 123, Band 123)

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Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with almost 5,000 women, this book examines footbinding as Sichuan women remember it from the final years of the empire and the troubled times before the 1949 revolution. It focuses on two key questions: what motivated parents to maintain this custom, and how significant was girls' work in China's final pre-industrial century? In answering these questions, Hill Gates shows how footbinding was a form of labor discipline in the first half of the twentieth century in China, when it was a key institution in a now much-altered political economy.

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Hill Gates is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Social Work at Central Michigan University, USA.

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ISBN 10:  1138104213 ISBN 13:  9781138104211
Verlag: Routledge, 2017
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