Word: ko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Emerson Hall audience winced as Ko demonstrated with her hand and a scarf how the daughter's feet were kept bound for years, until they stopped growing...
...Ko said that the procedure, performed on almost every upper-class woman in pre-modern China, crippled its victims for life...
...Ko took issue with traditional views of footbinding as "male sadism" and "the most blatant misogyny...
...This view is not wrong, but too simplistic," Ko said...
...professor said that footbinding unquestionably caused pain, however. "There is nothing ambiguous about the amount of pain and suffering involved in the traditional practice of footbinding," Ko said...