A (wo)men’s revolution?: Small feet, large hands and visions of womanhood in China’s long twentieth century

Different times and different regimes propagate different images of the ideal woman and her body. In China’s long twentieth century, the emblematic features of an ideal woman have wavered between one extreme of the woman with small (bound) feet, beautifully delicate, or, as one would say at another...

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Main Author: Mittler, Barbara (Author)
Format: Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Routledge handbook of revolutionary China
Year: 2019, Pages: 136-157
DOI:10.4324/9781315626727-10
Online Access:Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315626727-10
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