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Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made A Fetish Of Small Feet, Aubrey L. McMahan 
Grand Valley State University
Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made A Fetish Of Small Feet, Aubrey L. Mcmahan
Grand Valley Journal of History
Abstract for “Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made a Fetish of Small Feet”
This paper explores the source of the traditional practice of Chinese footbinding which first gained popularity at the end of the Tang dynasty and continued to flourish until the last half of the twentieth century.[1] Derived initially from court concubines whose feet were formed to represent an attractive “deer lady” from an Indian tale, footbinding became a wide-spread symbol among the Chinese of obedience, pecuniary reputability, and Confucianism, among other things.[2],[3] Drawing on the analyses of such scholars as Beverly Jackson, Valerie Steele and John ...
The Performance Of Non-Impaired Tamil-English Bilinguals On The Bilingual Aphasia Test, Teenu Sanjeevan 
McMaster University
The Performance Of Non-Impaired Tamil-English Bilinguals On The Bilingual Aphasia Test, Teenu Sanjeevan
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This thesis examines the performance of non-impaired Tamil-English speaking bilinguals on the Tamil-English version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) (Paradis and Libben, 1987). The test was administered to 25 participants, 15 women and 10 men. The results show that, on average, participants achieved an overall score of 97%. However, participants did not do well on two subtests on the English version, specifically sections on derivational morphology and morphological opposites. Also, a more detailed analysis indicates that years of education significantly correlates with performance, even though it is claimed that years of education should not affect performance on this test ...
Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould 
University of Iowa
Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
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