Economic correlates of footbinding: Implications for the importance of Chinese daughters' labor.

BACKGROUND:It is a wide-spread assumption about footbinding that footbound girls and women were more of an economic burden on their families than those never bound. It is often presumed that government policies and missionary campaigns ended footbinding. METHODS/ OBJECTIVES:We use regression and log...

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Main Authors: Melissa J Brown, Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6147408?pdf=render