Untwisting the Pastry
Rana Mitter: Footbinding and Its Critics, 11 May 2006
Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
by Dorothy Ko.
California, 332 pp., £18.95, December 2005,0 520 21884 1 Show More
by Dorothy Ko.
California, 332 pp., £18.95, December 2005,
“... for so long that it seems refreshingly iconoclastic. In Cinderella’s Sisters, Dorothy Ko, who teaches Chinese history at Columbia, takes on one of the remaining big taboos: footbinding. ‘Condemnation seems the goal of history,’ Ko writes on the first page, but she seeks ‘an alternative ... ”
