The Cost of Beauty “One must suffer in order to be beautiful,” is an idea that has been imposed on women throughout history, resulting in their decision to undergo extremely painful procedures that, at that time lead to them fulfilling their societies ideal form of beauty. Foot binding is one of the many ancient forms of beauty practices that involved an infliction of an excruciating amount of pain upon individuals. Foot binding was practiced in the Chinese culture for around one thousand years. It is a term that refers to an artificial route in stunting the normal growth in women’s feet also, rendering them into an unnatural shape. The effects of this inhumane practice were not worth the beauty …show more content…
The physical pain began almost immediately from the point where the individual had their bones broken and feet bounded. For about a year the pain was so unbearable the girls were not able to walk, they had a decreased appetite and even change of color in the entire body. Some girls experienced so much pain they would risk getting caught and secretly unbind their feet for awhile. Usually when someone was caught unbinding their feet their parents would just bind it tighter making it tougher to disengage. After the feet are reshaped there was a critical time in which unbinding an individual's foot would also inflict a similar amount of pain in which can be equally as painful as the practice of foot binding (Rupp, Excerpts from When I was a girl in China). Bed pots were also a desire in the course of this stage. A bed pot is a donut shaped pot without the whole at the bottom, used for urinating, considering the fact that walking was too painful. Although walking was only near impossible for the first year women would never be able to walk as much as they normally would be in their life and this is the reason why most houses were only one or two floors at most (Ross, 5). According to Cummings, Ling, and Stone, a study was done revealing that 56% of Chinese women ages 70 and older experience bound-foot deformities which hindered their ability to squat, get up without assistance and increased their likeliness to fall compared to women with normal feet (1677). Also, women with bound feet had 5.1% lower hip density and 4.7% less spine density compared to women with normal feet. As a result these women were at higher risks for spinal and hip fractures. As I mentioned earlier infections were common but, also a gruesome physical effect. Infections were the result of ingrown toenails which were most
I will be explaining the role of women in society in Bound Feet and Western Dress. The Chinese have traditions that are generations old and are very serious in their culture. These Chinese traditions have been deeply established. In Bound feet and Western Dress, a dispute between Chinese traditions and Westernization of Chinese women begin to emerge. The women in traditional China were treated unequally and were basically looked upon as property for their husband. The women were taken in by the husband’s family and had to always obey their husband and also had to take orders from the husband’s family as well.
Soccer are footwear which are worn for playing soccer. They play an integral part in a player’s performance. Modern day soccer cleats are far from the basic soccer cleats of the past. They involve different types of science and technology.
Years later during the Ming and Ch’ing eras it became wide spread among all status levels. Footbinding is a mutilation of the feet by wrapping them up weeks upon weeks to force them into the shape of a lotus flower and keep them at a length of three inches. (p.366) “Small feet became a prestige item to such an extent that a girl without them could not achieve a good marriage arrangement and was subjected to the disrespect and taunts of the community.” (p.364). Eventually lower-class women began using binding to find wealthy husbands.
Following a rough period of half a century, the Song dynasty took power in 960. This began a “Golden Age” of Chinese society. However, the role of women did not advance all across the board. It was more in the northern regions that were influenced by nomads. Unfortunately, the new Neo-Confucian influences held almost everywhere else, with the new influences of Buddhism and Daoism. (Strayer 371) In fact, conditions were terrible everywhere else, if not more so than they ever had been before. One example of the terrible factors women had to deal with was foot binding. Foot binding involved the wrapping feet tightly with gauze and stuffing them into specially designed “lotus shoes”. (Foreman) his process, repeated over many years, shrunk a woman’s feet at the expenditure of vast amounts of pain and broken bones. An outside onlooker would ask themselves ‘Why would people do this to their daughters?’, and the answer is quite
Traditions in Chinese culture are long-rooted and are taken very seriously from generation to generation. However, there must always be room for modern change in order for society to grow and strive across the globe. In Bound Feet and Western Dress the conflict between Chinese traditions and modern change arises. With this conflict it is important to discuss the different meanings of liberation for men and women and they way in which Chang Yu-I was able to obtain liberation throughout her life.
Also in China girls are made to bind there feet up at an early age so
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In past and present societies, women find value in their communities depending on different aspects of beauty. In Memoirs of a Geisha, Sayuri gains economic independence through the dramatic competitions between her and other geishas. The ancient Chinese tradition of foot binding prolonged a custom that subjugated women under the guise of beauty. Today's modern workplace entails a high standard of professional appearance that requires plastic surgery. In all instances, beauty plays an essential role in instilling a culture that persists and defines the intricate relationships between women and men.
This is to inform all employees that due to recent incidents, all employees are now required to wear closed toe shoes effective as of April 11th. As I am sure most of you have heard that in the past month we have had two separate incidents where both Deborah and Richard have experienced accidents in the workplace due to their choice of shoe wear. Both Deborah and Richard are fine and expected to make full recoveries and hopefully return to work by the end of the year. As a result of these incidents, all employees must wear appropriate show wear at all times while on premises. Examples of shoe wear that is not to be worn include, but are not limited to; flip flops, sandals, loafers, slippers, wedges, heels, platform shoes, crocs, and etc. Any
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Clubfoot can be diagnosed from 18-20 weeks of gestation with the use of ultrasound, this however has an 80% accuracy, as the ultrasounds beam is not able to penetrate all the bones [5]. Dr Nanda Kumar research focuses on the 3 dimensional aspect of the foot's deformity, where the “relationship of the calcaneus to the talus is characterised by abnormal rotation in the sagittal, coronal and horizontal planes” [5]. A 3 Dimensional scanner has been designed to help determine the elasticity in tissue of the affected foot, a method of diagnostic which is much preferred as there is no need for sedation and lacks ionizing radiation from other diagnostic technologies that are available. Multiple images will be captured simultaneously then stitched
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Both time periods scarred women mentally and physically. Medieval Europe used witchcraft which practically was a death threat and China used foot binding which would leave a woman mentally scarred either unable to walk or dead. Their motives were both the same, as they wanted to created a social order where men were on top and women were at the bottom. Although they were different, as women in Medieval Europe who chose not to act how society wanted them often worried about death. While women in Confucian China who didn’t act “right” often worried about failing to achieve final
In Warrior Marks, Alice Walker looks at the reality that millions of African, Asian and Indian women suffer from genital mutilation. The book begins with the re-telling of a story of how she lost one eye. This wound was inflicted on her when she was three years old and for years, she felt handicapped and isolated. Her brother, who caused this accident with a BBgun, is referred to as a “warrior” and the blinding of her eye is the warrior mark. Her visual mutilation is what helped her see the subject of genital mutilation. She sees it as a terrible form of patriarchal oppression, characterized by “the feeling of being overpowered and dominated by those you are bound to respect.”
There are many cultural differences of body modification in the Eastern world because the Eastern world’s views and ways of self expression are different to those in the Western world.