| Author | : Beverley Jackson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780898159578 |
Explores the origins and history of the Chinese practice of binding the feet of young girls, discussing the social, aesthetic, and cultural reasons for the practice
| Author | : Lindsay J. Bosch |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 780 |
| Release | : 2009-12-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0313081565 |
What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished. Icons of Beauty offers an enthralling overview of the most revered icons of female beauty in world art from pre-history to the present. From images of Eve to Cindy Sherman's self-portraits, from Cleopatra to Madonna, from ancient goddesses to modern celebrities, this interdisciplinary set offers fresh insight as to how we can use perceptions of beauty to learn about world cultures, both past and present. Each chapter looks at an individual work of art to pose a question about the power of beauty. What makes beauty modern? What is the influence of celebrities? How do women portray their own beauty in a different manner than men? In-depth profiles of the icons reveal how specific ideas about beauty were developed and expressed, offering a full analysis of their history, cultural significance, and lasting influence. In addition to renowned works of art, Icons of Beauty also looks at icons in literature, film, politics, and contemporary entertainment. Interdisciplinary and multicultural in its approach, chapters inside this set also feature sidebars on provocative topics and issues, such as foot binding and body adornment; myths and practices; opinions and interpretations; and even related films, songs, and even comic book characters. Generously illustrated, this rich set encompasses history, politics, society, women's studies, and art history, making it an indispensable resource for high school and college students as well as general readers.
| Author | : Jerold Jolles |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2008-11-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0595839711 |
Take a Chinese Industrialist, and then add a Nationalist Generalissimo, a Royal Princess and Old Leatherface to the mix. Jolles puts on his chefs hat to cook you up a recipe filled with plenty of shoot-em-up excitement. Then stir briskly with lots of insane characters as well as historical ones. The result is Operation Code Name Sushi!. One whale of a kidnapping and a hell of a joyride. Jolles will tickle you with the feather tip of his words. This is an interactive book, and without you the heroes will never win. So get ready to do some serious singing as well a lot of cheering. Reader victory is in your hands. So sit tight in your seat folks and grab hold of its edges, because you're seconds from blast off!
| Author | : Judie Newman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2007-12-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113431616X |
The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many questions for contemporary American Novelists, primarily the usefulness or redundancy of narrative and its potentially adaptive function. What are the right stories for such a broadband world? How do contemporary American novelists respond to issues such as the influence of the multinational corporation and its predecessors, human rights Imperialism, the literary work as a marketable commodity, translation as betrayal, data overload, and the implosion of the virtual into the biosphere? Is globalisation inevitable – or is it a fiction which fiction turns into reality? Fictions of America explores these questions and looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with resistant fictions. Judie Newman examines a wide range of fiction from the mid nineteenth to the twenty-first century including the transnational adoption narrative, short story, historical novel, slave narrative, international bestseller and Western to illustrate her argument. Looking closely at authors such as Bharati Mukherjee, John Updike, Emily Prager, Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston, David Bradley, Peter Høeg, and Cormac McCarthy, Fictions of America provides a bold response to the crucial questions raised by globalisation.
| Author | : Mrs. Molesworth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1887 |
| Genre | : Children's stories, English |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Hill Gates |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2014-12-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135042292 |
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 is not simply preparation for reproduction, rather its primary significance lies in preparing children for their places in the division of labor of a particular political economy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with almost 5,000 women, this book examines footbinding as Sichuan women remember it from the final years of the empire and the troubled times before the 1949 revolution. It focuses on two key questions: what motivated parents to maintain this custom, and how significant was girls’ work in China’s final pre-industrial century? In answering these questions, Hill Gates shows how footbinding was a form of labor discipline in the first half of the twentieth century in China, when it was a key institution in a now much-altered political economy. Countering the widely held views surrounding the sexual attractiveness of bound feet to Chinese men, footbinding as an ethnic boundary marker, its role in female hypergamy, and its connection to state imperatives, this book instead presents a compelling argument that footbinding was in fact a crucial means of disciplining of little girls to lives of early and unremitting labor. This vivid and fascinating study will be of huge interest to students and scholars working across a wide range of fields including Chinese history, oral history, anthropology and gender studies.
