\[ **BT: [[history--China]]** ] --- # footbinding --- [[The dominance of Neo-Confucianism in the Song played a large role in the popularisation of footbinding; the practice reinforced the seclusion of women and the separation of genders.]][^1] [^1]: Francesca Bray, *[[Bray, Technology and Gender, 1997|Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China]]* (University of California Press, 1997), p. 320.