The Resource Footbinding and women's labor in Sichuan, Hill Gates
Footbinding and women's labor in Sichuan, Hill Gates
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- Summary
- "When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child's body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not obvious is why Chinese society should have evolved such a radical method of gender-marking. Gendering is not simply preparation for reproduction, rather its primary significance lies in preparing children for their places in the division of labor of a particular political economy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with almost 5,000 women, this book examines footbinding as Sichuan women remember it from the final years of the empire and the troubled times before the 1949 revolution. It focuses on two key questions: what motivated parents to maintain this custom, and how significant was girls' work in China's final pre-industrial century? In answering these questions, Hill Gates shows how footbinding was a form of labor discipline in the first half of the twentieth century in China, when it was a key institution in a now much-altered political economy. Countering the widely held views surrounding the sexual attractiveness of bound feet to Chinese men, footbinding as an ethnic boundary marker, its role in female hypergamy, and its connection to state imperatives, this book instead presents a compelling argument that footbinding was in fact a crucial means of disciplining of little girls to lives of early and unremitting labor. This vivid and fascinating study will be of huge interest to students and scholars working across a wide range of fields including Chinese history, oral history, anthropology and gender studies"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxi, 238 pages
- Contents
-
- Footbinding in Sichuan, 1854-1954
- Patchworking Sichuan women's history across 100 years
- Erotic attraction vs. mothers-in-law, state mandates, and early unbinding
- Structure, hypergamy, and footbinding
- The life course
- Girls and hidden work
- Light labor: textiles and footbinding
- Hypergendering
- Appendix
- Isbn
- 9780415525923
- Label
- Footbinding and women's labor in Sichuan
- Title
- Footbinding and women's labor in Sichuan
- Statement of responsibility
- Hill Gates
- Subject
-
- China -- Sichuan Sheng
- Arbeit
- China
- Girls -- China | Sichuan Sheng -- Social life and customs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
- Frau
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Economic conditions
- Women -- Social life and customs
- Fuß
- Sichuan
- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions
- Footbinding
- Economic history
- Women -- Employment -- China | Sichuan Sheng
- Women -- Employment
- Schönheitsideal
- Social history
- Girls -- Social life and customs
- Women -- China | Sichuan Sheng -- Social life and customs
- Footbinding -- China | Sichuan Sheng
- Sitte
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child's body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not obvious is why Chinese society should have evolved such a radical method of gender-marking. Gendering is not simply preparation for reproduction, rather its primary significance lies in preparing children for their places in the division of labor of a particular political economy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with almost 5,000 women, this book examines footbinding as Sichuan women remember it from the final years of the empire and the troubled times before the 1949 revolution. It focuses on two key questions: what motivated parents to maintain this custom, and how significant was girls' work in China's final pre-industrial century? In answering these questions, Hill Gates shows how footbinding was a form of labor discipline in the first half of the twentieth century in China, when it was a key institution in a now much-altered political economy. Countering the widely held views surrounding the sexual attractiveness of bound feet to Chinese men, footbinding as an ethnic boundary marker, its role in female hypergamy, and its connection to state imperatives, this book instead presents a compelling argument that footbinding was in fact a crucial means of disciplining of little girls to lives of early and unremitting labor. This vivid and fascinating study will be of huge interest to students and scholars working across a wide range of fields including Chinese history, oral history, anthropology and gender studies"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gates, Hill
- Dewey number
- 391.20951/38
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GT498.F66
- LC item number
- G37 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Routledge contemporary China series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Footbinding
- Girls
- Women
- Women
- Sichuan Sheng (China)
- Sichuan Sheng (China)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- Economic history
- Footbinding
- Girls
- Social history
- Women
- Women
- China
- Fuß
- Frau
- Schönheitsideal
- Sitte
- Arbeit
- China
- Sichuan
- Label
- Footbinding and women's labor in Sichuan, Hill Gates
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Footbinding in Sichuan, 1854-1954 -- Patchworking Sichuan women's history across 100 years -- Erotic attraction vs. mothers-in-law, state mandates, and early unbinding -- Structure, hypergamy, and footbinding -- The life course -- Girls and hidden work -- Light labor: textiles and footbinding -- Hypergendering -- Appendix
- Control code
- 759915379
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxi, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415525923
- Lccn
- 2014023955
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759915379
- Label
- Footbinding and women's labor in Sichuan, Hill Gates
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Footbinding in Sichuan, 1854-1954 -- Patchworking Sichuan women's history across 100 years -- Erotic attraction vs. mothers-in-law, state mandates, and early unbinding -- Structure, hypergamy, and footbinding -- The life course -- Girls and hidden work -- Light labor: textiles and footbinding -- Hypergendering -- Appendix
- Control code
- 759915379
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxi, 238 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415525923
- Lccn
- 2014023955
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759915379
Subject
- Arbeit
- China
- China -- Sichuan Sheng
- Economic history
- Footbinding
- Footbinding -- China | Sichuan Sheng
- Frau
- Fuß
- Girls -- China | Sichuan Sheng -- Social life and customs
- Girls -- Social life and customs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- Schönheitsideal
- Sichuan
- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Economic conditions
- Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social conditions
- Sitte
- Social history
- Women -- China | Sichuan Sheng -- Social life and customs
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- Employment -- China | Sichuan Sheng
- Women -- Social life and customs
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