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  • Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan

    by Hill Gates ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not obvious is why Chinese society should have evolved such a radical method of gender-marking. Gendering ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Bound Feet, Young Hands

    Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China

    by Laurel Bossen, Hill Gates ...
    Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Chinese Working-Class Lives

    Getting By in Taiwan

    by Hill Gates ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan's history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth ... Read more

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  • A Cowherd in Paradise

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    Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

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    Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

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    This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies—and others as fascist or communist dictatorships.Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ... Read more

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