Women in China
Footbinding: show images
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleycampbell/lotus-feet?utm_term=.ty8J8nZ26#.heb8yYAO5
Lotus Shoes and real bound feet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bound_feet_(X-ray).jpg
X-ray of a bound foot
Women Warm UP 1. Why were women’s feet first bound? How was it perpetuated?
2. How did this practice reflect women’s status?
NEXT: Show Video “China From the Inside” Track 2 play to about 15 minutes- shows urban women migrating, (@ 9:40 has footbinding history, shortage of women
OR on YOUT TUBE
“Women of the Country” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKp8qNa75Q
- Packet reading on contemporary women, “Axis of Equality” page 22-25
Discuss and fill out T Chart
- How has the status of women changed?
- Predict how communism may have made this possible. (Talk about the communist revolution as based on eradicating the “olds” or the old ways- refer to info. Sheet on women in China)
- Discuss Mao’s quote, “women hold up half the sky”
HOMEWORK: Packet Axis of Equality and finish T chart