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The entire process usually took about two years at the end of which the feet were essentially dead and utterly useless. Binding the feet was the easy part, being bent so out of shape the feet required lots of core.
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www.angelfire.com/ca/beekeeper/foot.html
www.angelfire.com/ca/beekeeper/foot.html
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Foot binding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Foot binding (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin#ifeq:yes: chánzú nonononono, literally "bound feet") was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
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The actual foot binding process began when a girl was between the ages of three and eleven years old. First the inner foot of the child was washed in hot water and then massaged. ... Foot binding mangles the feet of these people, and causes many other disabilities. The University of California San Francisco did a study...
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www.essortment.com/all/chineseculture_rdpp.htm
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The binding of feet instantly became a symbol of feminine beauty and royal approval. ... This shape was kept by the binding of the foot. Bones were often broken during the process. The girl was then asked to wear a small pair of slippers (see picture above). The size of the slipper would be reduced, as the binding was...
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www.yutopian.com/arts/five/FB.html
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Foot binding was a cruel, painful process that began when a girl was around five years old. A bandage two inches wide and ten feet long was wrapped around the foot in a figure-eight pattern so that the arch was compressed and the four smaller toes were bent under.
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www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1286/whats-the-story-...
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1286/whats-the-story-on-the-ancient-chinese-custom-of-binding-womens-feet
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In its most extreme form, footbinding was the act of wrapping a three- to five-year old girl's feet with binding so as to bend the toes under, break the bones and force the back of the foot together.
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academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/studpages/ven...
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/studpages/vento.html
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Fix your feet balls ... Think about the interesting cultural tradition of binding the feet in China and then look at the more subtle, but similar in effect, tradition of women wearing high heeled shoes in our culture and the disastrous repercussions.
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www.evolutionhealth.com/fix_feet_instructions.html
www.evolutionhealth.com/fix_feet_instructions.html
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The majority of young girls had their feet bound by their mothers. Binding a daughters feet would ensure she would be married and hopefully to a wealthy man. The intial process of binding the feet took just one night but the feet took years of pain to conform into the beautiful crescent shape.
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www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/fall99/linzey/who.html
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Introducing Beverley Jackson's fascinating and informative new book about the ancient tradition of Chinese foot binding and the beautiful shoes they wore. ... Whatever the rationale, the fact is that by the time the practice was abandoned, millions of Chinese women had endured the unimaginable pain of the footbinding process,
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www.silcom.com/~bevjack/thebook.html
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