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Foot Binding Ming Dynasty
1,882 wordsIn the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, the heroine, Scarlet O'Hara grips a bedpost while her maid squeezes her torso into a corset, so that her waist will be 17 inches. During the late Nineteenth century, in the United States, it was the fashion for women to have tiny waists. Unfortunately, this fashion came at the cost of broken ribs and damaged internal organs. The corset compresses the stomach, as well as dislocating the kidneys, crushing the liver, squeezing the heart an...
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Mother In Law Foot Binding
1,872 words... o longer subordinate to men. Kang Youwzi, a late Qing reformer was correct in his belief that women's emancipation must go through three stages of social evolutions. First there would be disorder, then increasing peace with equality, and finally complete peace and equality. It took the chaos of the nationalist revolution, and once they took power women had increasing peace and equality. When the communists finally took over they achieved total equality. Once women finally had total equality ...
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Head To Toe Bound Feet
1,674 wordsIslam is a religion that I have not learned much about before now. I knew that the women wore scarves covering their face, but I did not know why. I knew that Muslims celebrated Ramadan, but I did not know what that was. I have recently become more interested in learning about the Muslim religion because of a speech I heard in one of my other classes, and the book Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks is a great insight into the world of Islam and into the lives of Muslim women. In the prolog...
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Foot Binding Tang Dynasty
1,847 wordsThe ancient Chinese custom of foot binding caused severe life-long suffering for the Chinese women involved. When researching the subject of foot binding, one of the difficult things is finding factual knowledge written before the 20 th century. Most of the historical data has been gathered from writings, drawings and photographs from the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Additionally, the research indicates that the historical documentation was mainly from missionary accounts and literature from vario...
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Daughter In Law Bound Feet
1,014 wordsIn China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a Chang Yu, a woman born into a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu's life is marked by a series of rebellions that will make her one of the most famous women in Chinese history: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce as a young woman from the famous poet Hsu Chi, and finally, her rise ...
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Foot Binding Bound Feet
4,183 wordsAs Chinese Foot Binding INTRODUCTION As I read the newspaper story, my eyes widen with every word, According to the National Institute of Mental Health there are over 5 million people in the United States suffering with eating disorders. 1 % of all North American teenagers have eating disorders. 10 % of these teenagers will die. People struggling with anorexia are among those whose health are at great risk (web) And then I see a picture of a young girl, nothing but bones and skin, looking wasted...
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Wang Lung Umbilical Cord
1,198 wordsPre-communist society was based on the teachings of Kung Fuzi (Confucius, 550 - 478 BC), whose main doctrine explained that inequality of the sexes in society was natural and necessary. He thought that everyone had his place- and a womans place was at the bottom of the hierarchy. Kung Fuzi stated Women are human but lower than men and It is the law of nature that woman should not be allowed any will of her own. In Daughters of the Dragon, by Christine Hall, she lists many beliefs and proverbs, s...
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