y was not judged by your face, but by the size of your feet.3 Ning explains the pain
of this process, "When I was nine they started to bind my feet again and they had to draw
the bindings tighter than usual. MY feet hurt so much that for two years I had to crawl on
my hands and knees" (Ida Pruitt, 22).4 This process is only one of many things a Chinese
woman had to endure to maintain the social norm.
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