Unbound feet : a social history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.Description: xiv, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0520088662 (alk. paper)
- 9780520088665 (alk. paper)
- 0520088670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780520088672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco -- History
- Women immigrants -- California -- San Francisco -- History
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions
- Immigranten
- Chinezen
- Sociale situatie
- Chinesin
- Sozialgeschichte
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Chinoises -- États-Unis -- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Conditions sociales -- 1900-1945
- Chinoises -- États-Unis -- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Immigrées -- États-Unis -- Californie (États-Unis) -- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Histoire
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Conditions sociales
- 979.4/61004951 20
- F869.S39 C595 1995
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks | F869.S39 C595 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | TBC00012119 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-387) and index.
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.
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.
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