Depending on whom you ask, foot-binding was everything from a bizarre cultural fetish that placed male ideas of beauty ahead of women's health and well-being to a brutal tradition intended to keep ...

A woman with three-inch bound feet. The Chinese practice of binding feet started in the 7th century, and was thought to occur to cater to men's sexual tastes. The practice stopped in the early 20th ...

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X-ray: 'False' bound foot. "False bound foot of a Chinese woman 44 years old, height 5ft. Note normal arch and normal position of os calcis. Foot bound at marriage, age 17 years. Toes bound under foot ...

For the past year I have been working with Britain’s BBC television to make a documentary series on the history of women. In the latest round of filming there was an incident that haunts me. It took ...