Deb:

This is something I noted in my original post, as well.
Still, the web page author's one misstep does NOT eliminate
the validity of the remaining information.  (Unless you
expect an expert/researcher of one topic to be equally
expert in all topics?)

It just sounds to me as if those condemning Chinese foot
binding have taken a position of cultural superiority - one
which ought to be viewed with as much (if not more) distaste
as Chinese foot binding.

Other web pages that might be of interest:

The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in
Seventeenth-Century China (by: Dorothy Ko)
http://iupjournals.org/jwh/jwh8-4.html

About Prof. Wang's (Creative Writing instructor at
Macalaster College, MN) book about Chinese foot binding
entitled 'Aching for Beauty'.
http://www.jademagazine.com/13me_wang.html

Adler Museum of the History of Medicine (South Africa)
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/mus/footbind.htm

Sincerely.

Jay


> > I sent in a URL with plenty of information
> > (http://www.angelfire.com/ca/beekeeper/foot.html).
>
> This would be a good site but the author shoots himself
> in the foot (no pun intended!!) at the end by saying "In
> addition, let us not forget those spine-deforming corsets
> that were fashionable for so many years in Europe and
> America."
>
> Which brings us back to the original misconception of
> corsets. :)
>
> Deb

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