A woman with three-inch bound feet. The Chinese practice of binding feet started in the 7th century, and was thought to occur to cater to men's sexual tastes. The practice stopped in the early 20th ...

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 poignantly documents the lives of women who endured foot-binding, a practice that ended in 1911. In 1911, the Chinese government banned foot-binding, a brutal practice of body modification ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

For almost 1,000 years, women in China were forced to bind their feet in order to represent their status and to make themselves more attractive. The practice was outlawed in 1912. The Good Earth by ...

Billy Joel may love you "just the way you are," but many Americans have doubts about their appearances. More than 1.5 million people had cosmetic procedures in 2012 and nearly 15 million more had ...

Suffering for beauty is a concept familiar to most women, who have dyed, plucked or shaved their hair, squeezed their feet into uncomfortable high heels or even surgically enhanced parts of their ...

Apologies to sensitive readers. Here's a bodyhack that we do not recommend. This foot-binding photo is the "most popular" photo on Yahoo News right now. Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of ...