Foot binding, a footnote

kelley at pulpculture.org kelley at pulpculture.org
Thu Apr 11 08:35:31 PDT 2002


At 02:21 PM 4/11/02 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:


>>Wilhelm Reich and Antonio Gramsci noted that a cultural revolution of
>>sorts has to take place in order for working class people to accept the
>>idea of income equality. In fact, Mao carried this out and did away with
>>things such as foot-binding for women, because he realized that people
>>who accept the tradition of women being purposefully crippled in order to
>>limit their movement, are more bound to reject communism (or anarchism)
>>and embrace authoritarian, hierarchical structures
>
>A small point. Peasant women in China were not subject to footbinding.
>That was for the mandarin and aristocratic classes. Peasants couldn't
>afford to lose the labor of women.
>
>jks

guh.

kelley



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