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Campus where you would like to present
SURC Room 271
Start Date
15-5-2014
End Date
15-5-2014
Keywords
Empowerment, Women, and Patriarchy
Abstract
People know the practice of footbinding in Chinese history through the lens of the anti-footbinding discourse that began in the late 19th century. Since modern elites in China and western missionaries problematized the practice for weakening women’s bodies and the Chinese national body, footbinding lost its history and became a representation of oppressive and exotic antiquity. This presentation attempts to introduce the overshadowed history of footbinding, by looking at its various methods and analyzing the meanings of individual practices. It will argue that footbinding, despite its notoriety, actually served to empower women within Chinese society.
Recommended Citation
Graham, Catherine; Hautamaki, Lauren; Macdonald, Crystal; and Glasman, Elizabeth, "Beautiful and Bound" (2014). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 40.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2014/oralpresentations/40
Additional Mentoring Department
History
Beautiful and Bound
SURC Room 271
People know the practice of footbinding in Chinese history through the lens of the anti-footbinding discourse that began in the late 19th century. Since modern elites in China and western missionaries problematized the practice for weakening women’s bodies and the Chinese national body, footbinding lost its history and became a representation of oppressive and exotic antiquity. This presentation attempts to introduce the overshadowed history of footbinding, by looking at its various methods and analyzing the meanings of individual practices. It will argue that footbinding, despite its notoriety, actually served to empower women within Chinese society.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Ahn, Chong Eun