Bound Feet? Is the practice of Foot Binding still practiced? If it is still done, where does it happen. What is the oldest age it was practiced on? When is it too late to bind feet? |
My grandma had the traditional chinese "white lily feet." Footbinding was a custom practiced on young girls or females for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. In Chinese foot binding, young girls' feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past 4-6 inches (10-15 cm). As the girl reached adulthood, her feet would remain small and dysfunctional, prone to infection, paralysis, and muscular atrophy. This was initially a common practice only in the wealthiest parts of China, particularly in areas around northern China. However, by the late Qing Dynasty, foot binding had become popular among people of all social classes except the poorest, who needed able-bodied women to work the fields. As of the 1990s and 2000s it was cause of disability among some elderly Chinese women. My grandma would used to soak her feet in hot water every night to sooth the pain from walking day long. It was really freaky!
For more info on foot binding visit www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/… |
How is Yu-i bound to traditions in Bound Feet and Western Dress? Please tell me the ways that Yu-i was bound to tradition by sunday. |
| ok |
At what age did Chinese girls have their feet bound? I know that there are many websites that would have lots of information about this practice, but I've already gone to a couple of sights.. only to find few facts and tons of bound feet pictures.. which absolutely grosses me out. ); I can't imagine how the girls would have to deal with this pain!
Please answer my question. I need this for a book report. xD |
| My source says about 3 years of age |
A while ago, I read this story about a little Chinese girl getting her feet bound? It was online and it was in a comic book with a couple of other stories. Does anyone know the name of it? I remember there wa sthis one scene where her husband was licking her foot and it was like her mom was telling her how she got her feet bound. It was a mix between a fairy tale and the real thing. |
| was this an adult comic book? lol. |
What did women with bound feet do in their time? Around 1910 in Asia.
Ive heard embroidering and lounging around but i need to think of at least four. |
Well, from what I've read they still had to do many of the regular things like caring for guyren, running the household, things like that even if their feet were badly deformed. But I think that many of guyren who had their feet bound were expected to enter into marriages that were of a somewhat higher class. Women who worked in the field and things like that would not have been able to.
It was outlawed in 1912 (not that people didn't still do it, but it was illegal). |
Do the bound feet of Chinese women, the burqa, and hijab, all spring from similar attitudes to women? After all, they all limit women's liberty? Or - all cater to vanity, male or female. |
The idea put forth by misogynists to justify their control is to claim they are "protecting" women and the female sex by insuring they won't be sexually targeted by other males. That way such control mechanisms appeal to women raised in the culture. Instead of a woman seeing herself as oppressed and unable to dress as she chooses without a goon from the religious police taking issue, she is raised to see the burqa as a sign of "modesty," "goodness," and sexual purity.
Examples:
The Burqa - Some Muslim men claim women should cover up their faces, bodies, and hair in loose clothing so men will not take advantage of them them and women can preserve their sexual chastity. "Protection from immorality" is another reason Saudi men cite why Saudi women can't drive and have to wear full black tarps in the middle of the f'ing desert.
Reality - Women are forced to wear tarp to stop them from being recognizable fully participating members of society and controlling their own sexuality. One woman in a burqa is not distinguishable from another. The misogynists' argument implies that men can't stop themselves from raping women and that their behavior (the rape) is dependent on how women dress, not what men choose.
Burqas - supported by misogynists and the supremely gullible apologists of radical Islam.
Foot binding is similarly misogynistic but different. It sprang up among courtesans and spread to wives as a status symbol, appealing to both vanity and a strange sexual image that men had of women unable to walk without help, dangling helplessly with feet that did not work. Modern parallels could be considered similar to the more extreme practices of Victorian waist training.
The bound foot:
library.thinkquest.org/J0111742/b…
Extreme wasp waist corsets:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
Burqa:
www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,766784,…
Try being recognized as an individual human when one "tarp" is indistinguishable from the next. |
A trained cat and dog run a race of a straight 100 feet and return. The dog leaps three feet cat each bound an? A trained cat and dog run a race of a straight 100 feet and return. The dog leaps three feet cat each bound and the cat two feet, but then the cat makes three leaps to the dog's two. Which animal will win the race and why? |
They would tie.
The dog makes two leaps to the cats three, so in two leaps, it goes 6 feet. the cat will make 3 leaps in this time which also equals three feet.
The only way one would win is if one got a head start, such as the cat running from a chasing dog.
have fun. |
Bound Feet& Western Dress nd Musi's Story. How are thes two books relevat to thestudy of east Asian history...? Bound Feet& Western Dress nd Musi's Story. How are thes two books relevat to thestudy of east Asian history.?
Be able to proivde two specific examples rom each book regarding their relevance to the study of East Asian history |
| Two specific examples simply regarded rom their relevance? You can't be serious. |
When a citizen is held in a dark cave, with his feet bound and hands cuffed to his computer? so that he only sees the monitor, will a timely smack on the head wake him? |
Sounding as if an internet cafe in the asylum.
It will smack on the head when the volume is raised knowing that it just automatically rebooted!
Have wonderful times! |
Would you like to have a meet and greet with some washed up NY bound feet? this one is for you....canada. |
| I feel like I'm in the world's worst sammich... |