Hill Gates

Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135042295
• Artikelnr.: 42008981

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Footbinding in Sichuan, 1854 to 1954 2. Patchworking Sichuan Women's
History across 100 Years 3. Erotic Attraction vs. Mothers-in-law, State
Mandates and Early Unbinding 4. Structure, Hypergamy and Footbinding 5. The
Life Course 6. Girls and Hidden Work 7. Textiles and Footbinding 8.
Hypergendering