CHINESE FOOT BINDING

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CHINESE FOOT BINDING

• What?

How?
Why?
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CHINESE FOOT BINDING

• What is it ?

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What is Chinese Foot Binding?
It is the binding of the feet
It is an attempt to make feet look smaller
DUH!
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CHINESE FOOT BINDING

• How is it done?

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Technique

• 4 to 7 year-old girls
• Feet washed massaged

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Technique

• Toes turned under pressed on feet
• Toes pulled straight with leg

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Technique

• Arches broken
• Long cotton bandage wrap

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Breaking the Arch
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Unwrapped Feet
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Effects

• Extreme pain
• Shrunken feet
• Deformed painful feet

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Effects

• Lost Toes
• Infection
• Gangrene
• Death

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Lotus Shoe
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Shoed Foot
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CHINESE FOOT BINDING

• Why is it done?

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Legends

• Lily Feet
• New Moons
• Sympathy

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Theories

• Control
• Marriage-ability
• Status
• Beauty

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Dont Judge!

• Plucking Eyebrows
• Getting Facelift
• Maiming for beauty

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Eyebrow Plucking
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Facelift
? BEFORE
AFTER ?
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Liposuction
BEFORE AFTER
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Corsets
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Toupees/Wigs
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The COMB-OVER
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High Heels
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Hmmmmm . . .
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End of Foot Binding

• Manchu Dynasty ended in 1911
• Foot binding then outlawed

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Assignment

• Write 3-5 sentences telling what you think about
  this practice
• Knowing the lifetime of pain it caused, why would
  mothers bind their daughters feet? (3-5
  sentences)

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Assignment

• Name four ways men and women today change their
  appearance. Why do they do it?
• 2 ways for men, 2 for women
• 3-5 sentences per example