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A woman with three-inch bound feet. The Chinese practice of binding feet started in the 7th century, and was thought to occur to cater to men's sexual tastes. The practice stopped in the early 20th ...

For the past year I have been working with Britain’s BBC television to make a documentary series on the history of women. In the latest round of filming there was an incident that haunts me. It took ...

Jo Farrell poignantly documents the lives of women who endured foot-binding, a practice that ended in 1911. In 1911, the Chinese government banned foot-binding, a brutal practice of body modification ...

For almost 1,000 years, women in China were forced to bind their feet in order to represent their status and to make themselves more attractive. The practice was outlawed in 1912. The Good Earth by ...

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The practice of foot binding, tightly wrapping the feet of young girls in order to reshape them and prevent them from growing too large, began sometime during the ninth or 10th century in China. Small ...