Isbn: 9780816636051 - Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand-year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and hampered mobility throughout their lives? What compelled mothers to bind the feet of their young daughters, forcing the girls to walk about on their doubled-over limbs to achieve the breakage of bones requisite for three-inch feet? Why did Chinese men find women?s "golden lotuses"-stench and all-so arousing, inspiring beauty contests for feet, thousands of poems, and erotica in which bound, silk-slippered feet were fetishized and lusted after? As a child growing up during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ping fantasized about binding her own feet and tried to restrict their growth by wrapping them in elastic bandages. Even though footbinding was not practiced by every woman in late Imperial China, the aesthetic, financial, and erotic advantages of footbinding permeated all aspects of language, ranging from erotic poetry, novels, and performances to food writing, myths, folk songs and ditties, and secret women?s writing, some of it hidden in embroidery. In Aching for Beauty, Wang interprets the mystery of footbinding as part of a womanly heritage-"a roaring ocean current of female language and culture."She also shows that footbinding should not be viewed merely as a function of men?s oppression of women, but rather as a phenomenon of male and female desire deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture. Written in an elegant and powerful style, and filled with personal, intriguing, and sometimes paradoxical insights, Aching for Beauty builds bridges from the past to the present, East to West, history to literature, imagination to reality.…

Condition: Very Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condition: Good. 1 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Very Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand-year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and hampered mobility throughout their lives? What compelled mothers to bind the feet of their young daughters, forcing the girls to walk about on their doubled-over limbs to achieve the breakage of bones requisite for three-inch feet? Why did Chinese men find women?s "golden lotuses"-stench and all-so arousing, inspiring beauty contests for feet, thousands of poems, and erotica in which bound, silk-slippered feet were fetishized and lusted after? As a child growing up during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ping fantasized about binding her own feet and tried to restrict their growth by wrapping them in elastic bandages. Even though footbinding was not practiced by every woman in late Imperial China, the aesthetic, financial, and erotic advantages of footbinding permeated all aspects of language, ranging from erotic poetry, novels, and performances to food writing, myths, folk songs and ditties, and secret women?s writing, some of it hidden in embroidery. In Aching for Beauty, Wang interprets the mystery of footbinding as part of a womanly heritage-"a roaring ocean current of female language and culture."She also shows that footbinding should not be viewed merely as a function of men?s oppression of women, but rather as a phenomenon of male and female desire deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture. Written in an elegant and powerful style, and filled with personal, intriguing, and sometimes paradoxical insights, Aching for Beauty builds bridges from the past to the present, East to West, history to literature, imagination to reality.…

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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Half Jacket w Protective Cover. Some light rubbing and edgewear. Text has yellowed slightly but remains tight in binding with no ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. University of Minnesota Press October 2000 8vo. 265 pages. clean, tight copy. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear and sun fading to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Pictorial boards, xiv, 265 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** CONTENTS: Three-inch golden lotuses: achieving beauty through violence; A brief history of footbinding; Footbinding and the cult of the exemplary woman; Edible beauty: food and foot fetishes in China; Silken slippers: footbinding in Chinese erotica; Binding, weaving, chatting: female bonding and writing; From golden lotus to Prime Minister: a woman's tale living from mouth to mouth; The fabric of masquerade. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 2000. China, Asia. Universuty of Minnesota Press. 265p., fine boards with decorative wrap-around dust jacket or band 6/25.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine in Fine wrap-around band as dust ajcket. Boards, xivm 265pp, index, bibliography. A few B&W illus. This is a book on footbinding in China written by an assistant professor of English who was born in Shanghai. (1.7 JM HOZ 402/b1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Very little shelfwear. The dust jacket which is a half-size band is in new mylar. First Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wrap around band with small scuff. Signed by Author(s).

Very good in very lightly edgeworn jacket. hardbound Price sticker on back jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China Wang Ping University of Minnesota Press HB 2000 First Edition ISBN 0816636052 AS NEW, flawless, unread. Pictorial boards wrapped with black printed bellyband.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine hardback copy. Pictorial covers, no dustjacket. xiv, 265pp, b/w illustrations. Signed in English and also in Chinese by the author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2000. Aching for Beauty : Footbinding in China In englischer Sprache. pages.