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A 4 page paper which provides a report on the work “Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding” by Dorothy Ko. No additional sources cited.
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a practice that was ultimately destroyed in the 20th century, yet it still stands as a very controversial subject that many scholars and historians research and study. In most cases
it is argued to be nothing more than an example of the oppression of women in a patriachal society, a society where women had to do whatever men told them,
binding them physically and symbolically through ultimately destroying their feet. In Dorothy Kos work Cinderellas Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding the author goes one step further and takes the
reader into an examination of many of the truths of footbinding, truths that illustrate it was many women agreed to, embraced, and pursued on their own. The following paper presents
a report of this book. Cinderellas Sisters by Dorothy Ko As noted, most people envision footbinding as one of the most barbaric practices of the Chinese. In footbinding
a girls feet are bound, wrapped, kept tight as they grow so that the womans foot will always be small and beautiful. Natural feet were considered ugly and clearly not
refined. Many women, since the beginning of this practice, have suffered incredible pain and deformity because of the binding, yet they have apparently also always taken great pride in small
feet regardless of the suffering. Also as noted, most people assume it was only a practice that illustrates the power of men, the oppression of women, and a strong
patriarchal society. Ko, however, works very hard to bypass any sort of judgment, any sort of modern take on the practice, and delves into the practice itself focusing on the
attitudes and beliefs of those who engaged in the practice, which was almost everyone. She does not claim it is bad or good and in doing so illustrates that it
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