part 353 whalers on the moon

[aphanon_meme]

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

Latest Page

View flat!

*There is a rules page here. Please read it before reading and posting.

*There is a contact post here. Please use it for contacting me privately.

*There is a meme calender you can use for tracking and listing meme events!

*Dreamwidth, unfortunately, no longer supports any type of anonymous image posting.

*If you would like the Dreamwidth layout to look more like Livejournal's, you can use this workaround for your browser

Note: All entries prior to Part 331 originated on Livejournal.

Comments

Re: The last living Chinese women with bound feet

[(Anonymous)]

Foot binding is really interesting. Although it culturally was a consequence of male desires, it became very much an exclusive part of female culture in Chinese households, something only done through women's work.

And the general stereotype is that footbinding was meant to keep women incapacitated, but as the practice became popular with non aristocratic women, footbinding itself shifted to allow different styles that accommodated women who had to work and walk for a living--there's '
'bound' rain boots, 'bound' work/farm shoes, etc.

Re: The last living Chinese women with bound feet

[(Anonymous)]

I recall reading an article a few years back about how it had become difficult for women with bound feet to find special shoes, as of course that generation was dying off and so were the generation of shoemakers who had created shoes specifically to support that distorted foot shape.