Author

Publication

1995 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

98,750 words, Guess

Page Count

395 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing925533

Classifications

  • DDC979.4/61004951
  • LCCF869.S39 C595 1995

Description

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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Other Editions

  • Unbound feet: a social history of Chinese women in San FranciscoUniversity of California Press1995-01-01

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