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Gladiator Heels: Footed & Ready
The latest foot fetish hitting the red carpets, and pavement, this summer has some height on last year's foot armor. Last year's ubiquitous gladiator sandals are getting a lift and adding an extra kick to Hollywood starlets' red carpet looks
===== 「美しさや歩き方 」? 女足の緊縛、 娘役の調教
// 纏足（てんそく）とは、幼児期より足に布を巻かせ、足が大きくならないようにするという、かつて中国で女性に対して行われていた風習をいう。
纏足の目的
纏足文化ができた原因は、小さい足の女性の方が美しいと考えられたからである。小さく美しく施された靴を纏足の女性に履かせ、その美しさや歩き方などの仕草を楽しんだようである。纏足の女性はうまく歩けないことから、女性支配の手段にもなっていたと考えられる。また、バランスをとるために、内股の筋肉が発達するため、女性の局部の筋肉も発達すると考えられていた。 このようなことから、蒙昧な時代には纏足を施していない女には嫁の貰い手がなかったという。
// 出典: フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
Australian Museum > Body Art > Shaping > Footbinding
Chinese folklore attributes the origins of footbinding to a fox who tried to conceal its paws while assuming the human guise of the Shang Empress. Another version suggests that the Empress had a club foot and insisted that all women bind their feet so that hers became the model for beauty in the court.
Bounded Patriarchy - The Story Of Footbinding by Julia Linzey
Throughout time women have bounded, changed, anchored, formed, deformed, mutilated, manipulated, damaged, and altered their bodies in order to survive in the state society. Footbinding is just one of the many ways in which Chinese women have participated in and became bound to patriarchy.
Painful Memories for China's Footbinding Survivors
by Louisa Lim
Suffering for beauty is a concept familiar to most women, who have dyed, plucked or shaved their hair, squeezed their feet into uncomfortable high heels or even surgically enhanced parts of their anatomy. Millions of Chinese women went even further — binding their feet to turn them into the prized "three-inch golden lotuses."
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