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Author Ko, Dorothy, 1957-

Title Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding / Dorothy Ko.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies
Philip E. Lilienthal book.
Note Originally published: 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents pt. 1. The body exposed -- 1. Gigantic histories of the nation in the globe : the rhetoric of Tianzu, 1880s-1910s -- 2. The body inside out : the practice of Fangzu, 1900s-1930s -- 3. The bound foot as antique : connoisseurship in an age of disavowal, 1930s-1941 -- part 2. The body concealed -- 4. From ancient texts to current customs : in search of footbinding's origins -- 5. The erotics of place : male desires and the imaginary geography of the Northwest -- 6. Cinderella's dreams : the burden and uses of the female body.
Subject Footbinding -- China.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Footbinding. (OCoLC)fst00931452
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780520253902 0520253906
ISBN 0520941403 (electronic bk.)
9780520941403 (electronic bk.)
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