Unbound feet : a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco /
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1995.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501106 |
| Summary: | The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of the World War II, revealing that these women - rather than being passive victims of oppression - were active agents in the making of their own history |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 395 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-387) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520915350 0520915356 058520053X 9780585200538 9780520088665 0520088662 9780520088672 0520088670 |