Jo Farrell poignantly documents the lives of women who endured foot-binding, a practice that ended in 1911. In 1911, the Chinese government banned foot-binding, a brutal practice of body modification ...

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In 1929, the Church of Scotland Mission, which had a long and successful history of missionary work among the Kikuyu in colonial Kenya, began a campaign to eradicate the practice of female ...

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It was an excruciatingly painful practice that maimed the feet of millions of Chinese girls and women for centuries: foot-binding. Tiny “golden lotus” feet – achieved through breaking girls’ toes and ...

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 ...

Foot binding has been illegal in China for a century. But a number of older women, who, continued the traditional custom in secret, are now featuring in a new photography series that aims to bust ...

Millions of Chinese women bound their feet, a status symbol that allowed them to marry into money. Footbinding was banned in 1912, but some women... Painful Memories for China's Footbinding Survivors ...

More than 100 years after the centuries-old practice of foot binding was banned in China, these are some of the last living women who were subjected to the practice as children. Once a symbol of ...