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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Yung, Judy
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1995.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501106
Sumário:
  • 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.