Every Step a Lotus Shoes for Bound Feet

Name: Every Step a Lotus Shoes for Bound Feet
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ISBN: 9780520232846

ISBN-10: 0520232844

ISBN-13: 9780520232846

Edition: 2002

Authors: Dorothy Ko, Bata Shoe Museum Foundation Staff

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In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking--the tools needed, the procedures, the wealth of symbolism in the shoes, and the amazing regional variations in style--she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest moral value on domesticity, motherhood, and handwork. Her absorbing,…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 162
Size: 9.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Origins



The Ties That Bind



Bodies of Work



The Speaking Shoe



A New World


Notes


Bibliography


Photography Credits


Index