Women who had their feet bound as children in rural China photographed by Hong Kong-based Jo Farrell Practice, also called lotus feet, was a symbol of beauty and status and was started when girls ...

Foot binding, the practice of crushing young women's feet into tiny "lotus" feet, was widespread in China for nearly a thousand years. Long seen as a crucial way for women to elevate their status ...

Carole Crosby, a physiotherapist involved in toe-to-hand transplants, gave a talk on the 'dreadful' practice of foot binding at the Denbigh ...