Touching Home in China: in search of missing girlhoods - How foot binding preserved China's patriarchal society: "Social tradition created a system that forced women to choose between: binding their feet and
![Graphic photos show brutal reality of ancient Chinese practice of foot- binding | The Independent | The Independent Graphic photos show brutal reality of ancient Chinese practice of foot- binding | The Independent | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/05/17/10/gettyimages-73616775.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp)
Graphic photos show brutal reality of ancient Chinese practice of foot- binding | The Independent | The Independent
![The last women in China with bound feet: 'They thought it would give them a better life' | Art and design | The Guardian The last women in China with bound feet: 'They thought it would give them a better life' | Art and design | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/6/12/1434121503953/774e2eab-a8e6-4d5f-972b-7a118c03e89d-2060x1030.jpeg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2936b43795d37c941c858842ef156305)
The last women in China with bound feet: 'They thought it would give them a better life' | Art and design | The Guardian
![Foot Binding in China: The Terrible and Banned Practice to achieve a Questionable Beauty-Lotus Shoes - YouTube Foot Binding in China: The Terrible and Banned Practice to achieve a Questionable Beauty-Lotus Shoes - YouTube](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KVby2Bd_wSg/maxresdefault.jpg)
Foot Binding in China: The Terrible and Banned Practice to achieve a Questionable Beauty-Lotus Shoes - YouTube
![Foot-binding in ancient China: When women fought against their genes to be beautiful, Society News - ThinkChina Foot-binding in ancient China: When women fought against their genes to be beautiful, Society News - ThinkChina](https://dwvyw8kf1avne.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/articles/20210112_59938899_a6befab6-4b4b-4f69-826d-a9055464f006.jpg)
Foot-binding in ancient China: When women fought against their genes to be beautiful, Society News - ThinkChina
![Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known](https://preview.redd.it/km4oxk4jq5b81.jpg?auto=webp&s=b4f7241f35b77cd59b63858153046539c0ace9ee)