Modern women aren’t so different from the grannies she’s found, she writes at Kickstarter, judging by our love of “Botox, FGM, breast augmentation, scarring and tattooing, to rib removals, toe tucks and labrets.” Foot binding too was a status symbol. For centuries, millions of young women crushed their feet in a bid to marry well, until the Chinese government finally managed to wipe out the practice in the mid twentieth century.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:02:34 +0000