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What is Bound Feet Blues : A Life Told in Shoes about?
In Chinese tradition, women with tiny bound feet were desirable as wives and lovers, their delicate feet seen as objects of both status and sexual fetish. What can the ancient tradition of footbinding tell us about the role of women beneath the gaze of men and the relationship between mothers and daughters? Drawing on her own history, novelist and performer Yang-May creates a layered tapestry of meaning and exploration, deftly exploring themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment whi
- Author
- Yang-May Ooi
- Publisher
- Urbane Publications Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781910692301
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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