What I found most sad is "the most compelling expression of tightening patriarchy lay in foot binding" (Strayer, 331). I don't want to see women who have a foot binding because their feet would become strange. This had actually happened in the 10th and 11th centuries C.E., which is inside the period of the Song Dynasty. The practice involved "the right wrapping of young girls' feet, usually breaking the bones of the foot and causing intense pain" (Strayer, 331). This is the best reason that refers to many mothers who had "imposed this painful procedure on their daughters, perhaps to enhance their marriage prospects and to assist them in competing with concubines for the attention of their husbands" (Strayer, 331). This is the process called family conflict.
Many women were "having tiny feet and the beautiful slippers that encased them became a source of some pride, even a topic of poetry for some literate women" (Strayer, 331). Foot binding also used as feminine Chinese culture, while "the practice of foot binding painfully deformed the feet of young girls and women, it was also associated aesthetically with feminine beauty, particularly int he delicate and elaborately decorated shoes that encased their bound foot" (Strayer, 332).
In final words of this blog post, I feel sad about women who had foot binding.
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