HIST 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Empress Dowager Cixi, Qiu Jin, Foot Binding
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Primary three: an attack on foot-binding in china (pp. But if by chance her father is an ill-tempered and unreasonable man, he may curse her birth: What rotten luck: another useless thing. : some men go as far as killing baby girls while most hold the opinion that girls are eventually someone else"s property and treat them with coldness and disdain. But if the man is bad or he ill-treats her, she is told that her marriage is retribution for some sin committed in her previous existence. If she complains at all or tries to reason with her husband, he may get angry and beat her. When other people find out they will criticize her, saying, that woman is bad; she doesn"t know how to behave like a wife. : when a man dies, his wife must mourn him for three years and never remarry.
