Footbinding - Revision history

Christopher W: /* End of Footbinding */

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End of Footbinding

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How to Bind Feet

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Role in Marriage

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Care of Bound

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How to Bind Feet

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Care of Bound

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How to Bind Feet

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Care of Bound

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Care of Bound

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-[[File:8_footbinding.jpg|200px|thumb|left|typical bound foot. The toes have been wrapped so completely under the foot that they are visible on the opposite side]]
 Footbinding wasn't always legal in China. The Qing Dynasty outlawed footbinding, but the law was mostly ignored and women continued to bind their daughter's feet. The Qing Dynasty was not run by Han Chinese, and therefore they did not practice the footbinding custom.

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-[[File:6_Shanghai_1900_by_Okinawa_Soba.jpg|225px|thumb|left|Chinese woman from Shanghai 1900 shows her bound feet]]
-[[File:7_shanghai.jpg|250px|thumb|right|top view of the feet of the woman from Shanghai unwrapped and shown next to the foot of a typical woman with unbound feet.]]
-[[File:9_footbinding.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Now for a look at the bottom of her feet]]
-[[File:10_footbinding.jpg|250px|thumb|right|close up of typical bound feet.]]
 [[File:footbinding_schema.JPG|600px|thumb|right|Comparison of a normal foot and a foot that has gone through the footbinding process. Image by Marco L.]]

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-[[File:4_footbinding.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mother & daughter- compare the size of their feet]]
 One of the main roles footbinding played was increasing the marriagablilty of the daughters in a household. Marriage was a way to assure continuity of the patrilineal line. When a family had a daughter, their concern was to raise her as cheaply as possible. This was due to the fact that girls left the family and could not help the family economically. This meant the main task for the family was to ensure that their daughters would marry into a good family. In order to make a daughter marriageable they had to be brought up in strict accordance of correct female behavior. The correct way for women behave was outlined in the Three Obediences and the Four Virtues.

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-[[File:12_footbinding.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Not just in China. This woman is from Toronto. Click  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfisherlibrary/6235264222/sizes/l/in/photostream/ here] for original source.]]
+[[File:12_footbinding.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Not just in China. This woman is from Toronto. Photo by Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.   Click  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfisherlibrary/6235264222/sizes/l/in/photostream/ here] for original source.]]
 [[File:footbinding_shoes.JPG|250px|thumb|right|Photo of the type of shoes women with bound feet wore. Photo by Queensland Museum]]
 The pain from footbinding never fully went away. Only women who had mothers who were skilled at the process had the pain subside after a year or two. At this time, it became the woman's job to care for her bound feet. Caring for bound feet was always done in private, because the possibility of someone seeing the unbound foot was considered taboo.(Greenhalgh, 10)

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	There is some disagreement about when footbinding began in China. It has been suggested that it began as early as the Shang Dynasty and as late as the Song Dynasty.(Ebrey, 160) At the very least though, the custom lasted for well over a thousand years, until well into the 20th Century. These pictures are all of women from the late 19th or early 20th Century		There is some disagreement about when footbinding began in China. It has been suggested that it began as early as the Shang Dynasty and as late as the Song Dynasty.(Ebrey, 160) At the very least though, the custom lasted for well over a thousand years, until well into the 20th Century. These pictures are all of women from the late 19th or early 20th Century