1. CHINESE FOOT BINDING
How?
What?
Why?

2. CHINESE FOOT BINDING
What is it ?

3. What is Chinese Foot Binding?
It is an attempt to make feet look smaller
It is the binding of the feet
DUH!

4. CHINESE FOOT BINDING
How is it done?

5. Technique
4 to 7 year-old girls
Feet washed & massaged

6. Technique Toes turned under & pressed on feet
Toes pulled straight with leg

7. Technique
Arches broken
Long cotton bandage wrap

8. Breaking the Arch

9. Unwrapped Feet

10. Effects
Extreme pain
Shrunken feet
Deformed & painful feet

11. Effects
Lost Toes
Infection
Gangrene
Death

12. Lotus Shoe

14. Shoed Foot

15. CHINESE FOOT BINDING
Why is it done?

16. Legends
“Lily Feet”
New Moons
Sympathy

18. Theories
Control
“Marriage-ability”
Status
Beauty

20. Don’t Judge!
Plucking Eyebrows
Getting Facelift
Maiming for beauty

21. Eyebrow Plucking

22. Facelift
 BEFORE
AFTER 

23. Liposuction
BEFORE AFTER

24. Corsets

25. Toupees/Wigs

26. The COMB-OVER

27. High Heels

28. Hmmmmm . . .

29. Manchu Dynasty ended in 1911 Foot binding then outlawed
End of Foot Binding
Manchu Dynasty ended in 1911
Foot binding then outlawed

30. Assignment
Write 3-5 sentences telling what you think about this practice
Knowing the lifetime of pain it caused, why would mothers bind their daughters’ feet? (3-5 sentences)

31. Assignment
Name four ways men and women today change their appearance. Why do they do it?
2 ways for men, 2 for women
3-5 sentences per example