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Thread: Bound feet--prerequisite for landing a husband
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[quote=GRIZ326,253301]Parents bound their girl babies feet believing it offered the girl a better opportunity for marrying into wealth; or would fetch the father a better price if he sold his daughter as a concubine. While I can understand that the feminist movement might associate unbinding the feet with freeing women's minds, I am not certain the link is completely valid from the historic perspective. Of course, being sold by one's father would certainly give the girl the impression that she was nothing more than a man's possession. ...maybe it is valid ??? Not all Chinese women had bound feet, in fact, most did not because women have always helped with the work in the fields in China. Women with bound feet could not do that work. [/quote]
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