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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1995.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501106 |
Sommario:
- Bound feet: Chinese women in the nineteenth century
- Unbound feet: Chinese immigrant women, 1902-1929
- First steps: the second generation, 1920s
- Long strides: the Great Depression, 1930s
- In step: the war years, 1931-1945.