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Dorothy Ko Every Step a Lotus (Paperback)

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Book Title
Every Step a Lotus
Title
Every Step a Lotus
Subtitle
Shoes for Bound Feet
ISBN-10
0520232844
EAN
9780520232846
ISBN
9780520232846
Genre
History
Release Date
11/12/2001
Release Year
2001
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
235mm

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In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking--the tools needed, the procedures, the wealth of symbolism in the shoes, and the amazing regional variations in style--she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest moral value on domesticity, motherhood, and handwork. Her absorbing, superbly detailed, and beautifully written book demonstrates that in the women's eyes, footbinding had less to do with the exotic or the sublime than with the mundane business of having to live in a woman's body in a man's world. Footbinding was likely to have started in the tenth century among palace dancers. Ironically, it was meant not to cripple but to enhance their grace. Its meaning shifted dramatically as it became domesticated in the subsequent centuries, though the original hint of sensuality did not entirely disappear. This contradictory image of footbinding as at once degenerate and virtuous, grotesque and refined, is embodied in the key symbol for the practice--the lotus blossom, being both a Buddhist sign of piety and a poetic allusion to sensory pleasures. Every Step a Lotus includes almost one hundred illustrations of shoes from different regions of China, material paraphernalia associated with the customs and rituals of footbinding, and historical images that contextualize the narrative. Most of the shoes, from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, have not been exhibited before. Readers will come away from the book with a richer understanding of why footbinding carries such force as a symbol and why, long after its demise, it continues to exercise a powerful grip on our imaginations. A Copublication with the Bata Shoe Museum

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University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520232846
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Author
Dorothy Ko
Publication Name
Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
162 Pages

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210mm
Item Width
235mm
Item Weight
635g

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Title_Author
Dorothy Ko
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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