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

1. 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