Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco [Signed]

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 395 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Ex-lib with card pockets. Overall very good(-) to good(++), with a few dog-eared paged. Paperback. ISBN: 9780520088665, 9780520088672

Signed and inscribed by the author. (Name remomved from photo for privacy.) "The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in San Francisco. Judy Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of the World War II, revealing that these women - rather than being passive victims of oppression - were active agents in the making of their own history/" —Publisher. Contents: Bound feet: Chinese women in the nineteenth century. Unbound feet: Chinese immigrant women, 1902-1929. First steps: the second generation, 1920s. Long strides: the Great Depression, 1930s. In step: the war years, 1931-1945.