Tag: Uppsala Sweden
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Chinese footbinding: A millennium of mutilation
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden A high caste woman with her feet unwrapped. From Women Of All Nations (London & New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1911), 532. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. “Foot binding is the most incendiary and least controversial subject in modern Chinese history.”1 – Dorothy Ko, professor of History and Women’s Studies, Barnard…
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Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann and Der Struwwelpeter
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Heinrich Hoffmann: The Struwwelpeter; Frankfurt am Main: Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, 1917 (400th edition); Copy of the Braunschweig University Library Call number: 2007-0968. Via Wikimedia. “Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.” — B.F. Skinner Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) was a general practitioner in Frankfurt.…