Ending foot binding Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins development and eventual end exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand year history Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia regional rivalries and claims of male privilege Nor were women hapless victims the author contends Ko describes how women—those who could afford it—bound their own and their daught.
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