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Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

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The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, she shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of World War II.

The setting for this captivating history is San Francisco, which had the largest Chinese population in the United States. Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, uses an impressive range of sources to tell her story. Oral history interviews, previously unknown autobiographies, both English- and Chinese-language newspapers, government census records, and exceptional photographs from public archives and private collections combine to make this a richly human document as well as an illuminating treatise on race, gender, and class dynamics.

While presenting larger social trends Yung highlights the many individual experiences of Chinese American women, and her skill as an oral history interviewer gives this work an immediacy that is poignant and effective. Her analysis of intraethnic class rifts--a major gap in ethnic history--sheds important light on the difficulties that Chinese American women faced in their own communities. Yung provides a more accurate view of their lives than has existed before, revealing the many ways that these women--rather than being passive victims of oppression--were active agents in the making of their own history.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780520915350
Subtitle:
A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
Publisher:
University of California Press
Creator:
Judy Yung
Author:
Judy Yung
Author:
Yung, Judy
Subject:
Social conditions
Subject:
San francisco
Subject:
Women's Studies - History
Subject:
San Francisco (Calif.) Social conditions.
Subject:
Women immigrants -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
History
Subject:
Chinese American women
Subject:
Women immigrants
Subject:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Subject:
Chinese American women - California -
Subject:
Women immigrants - California -
Subject:
Ethnic Studies-Asian American
Subject:
Gender Studies-Womens Studies
Subject:
US History-General
Subject:
Ethnic Studies-Chinese American
Subject:
main_subject
Subject:
all_subjects
Publication Date:
19951115
Binding:
ELECTRONIC
Language:
English
Pages:
395
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History and Social Science » Americana » General
History and Social Science » Ethnic Studies » Asian American
History and Social Science » Gender Studies » General
History and Social Science » Gender Studies » Womens Studies
History and Social Science » Sociology » Urban Studies » General
History and Social Science » US History » General
History and Social Science » World History » General

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