Study finds foot-binding was driven by economics, not sex and beauty

Monday, October 22, 2018 - 08:30 in Psychology & Sociology

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 women subservient to men.

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