Unbound feet : a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco /

The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yung, Judy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
Chinese American women > California > San Francisco > History.
Women immigrants > California > San Francisco > History.
Américaines d'origine chinoise > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire.
Immigrantes > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Chinese American women
Social conditions
Women immigrants
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social conditions.
California > San Francisco
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bound feet: Chinese women in the nineteenth century
  • Unbound feet: Chinese immigrant women, 1902-1929
  • First steps: the second generation, 1920s
  • Long strides: the Great Depression, 1930s
  • In step: the war years, 1931-1945.

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