| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 395 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-387) and index. |
| Summary |
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of the World War II, revealing that these women - rather than being passive victims of oppression - were active agents in the making of their own history. |
| Contents |
Bound feet: Chinese women in the nineteenth century -- Unbound feet: Chinese immigrant women, 1902-1929 -- First steps: the second generation, 1920s -- Long strides: the Great Depression, 1930s -- In step: the war years, 1931-1945. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Chinese American women. |
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California -- San Francisco. |
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History. |
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Women immigrants -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Women immigrants. |
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yung, Judy. Unbound feet. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995 0520088662 (DLC) 94040397 (OCoLC)31375976 |
| ISBN |
9780520915350 (electronic book) |
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0520915356 (electronic book) |
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058520053X (electronic book) |
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9780585200538 (electronic book) |
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9780520088665 (alkaline paper) |
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0520088662 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520088672 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520088670 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520088662 (alkaline paper) |
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0520088670 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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