Chinese Restraints

Wow In Vicki Ruiz's Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in US Women’s History, 4th Edition (US). Chapter 15 does not mess around it gets straight to the point in the fourth paragraph. I had no idea about the Chinese male/female ratio difference or about the high percentage of prostitues but, maybe I did in the back of my mind and either didn’t want to admit it or stored that knowledge away. I remember learning about foot binding years ago well so many years I can’t remember. To me it seemed such a cruel practice. I was also told that this practice was done because men liked when women had small feet however, this chapter paints a very different and painful picture. The binding of Chinese women’s feet was a way to keep them below men in society so that they would not be seen as an equal but more as a frail, weak and unintelligent. I think that the idea of the women using the slave girls as a way to point out their own countries bad or declining morals, was a brilliant way to make people understand. I think that the Chinese proverb “Ignorance in a woman is a virtue,” is a way for Chinese men to keep their so called thumb on Chinese women. Uneducated women and men alike are less likely to question things therefore they are more likely to allow themselves to be taken advantage of. The Chinese men used the women’s lack of education when they forced women to become prostitutes, girls to be slaves, women to have foot bindings, etc. I have never heard of the CYSP (Chung Sai Yat Po) however, this organization was pivotal in Chinese American women and women in China’s lives. This organization made a huge drastic change to these women’s lives by educating and making people more aware of what was happening and going on within the Chinese culture.

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