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Unbound feet : a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 395 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520915350
  • 0520915356
  • 058520053X
  • 9780585200538
  • 9780520088665
  • 0520088662
  • 9780520088672
  • 0520088670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unbound feet.DDC classification:
  • 979.4/61004951 20
LOC classification:
  • F869.S39 C595 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Bound feet: Chinese women in the nineteenth century -- Unbound feet: Chinese immigrant women, 1902-1929 -- First steps: the second generation, 1920s -- Long strides: the Great Depression, 1930s -- In step: the war years, 1931-1945.
Summary: The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of the World War II, revealing that these women - rather than being passive victims of oppression - were active agents in the making of their own history.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-387) and index.

The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of the World War II, revealing that these women - rather than being passive victims of oppression - were active agents in the making of their own history.

Bound feet: Chinese women in the nineteenth century -- Unbound feet: Chinese immigrant women, 1902-1929 -- First steps: the second generation, 1920s -- Long strides: the Great Depression, 1930s -- In step: the war years, 1931-1945.

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English.

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