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For the past year I have been working with Britain’s BBC television to make a documentary series on the history of women. In the latest round of filming there was an incident that haunts me. It took ...

Jo Farrell, portrait of Zhang Yun Ying, age 77 (2005) (all photographs courtesy the artist) As the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet ages into their final decades, Jo Farrell set out to ...

SEKINCHAN, Malaysia (Reuters Life!) - Lim Guan Siew once had bound feet that were considered the height of feminine beauty in China, but the 93-year-old who now lives in Malaysia says it is a fate she ...