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 ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Zhou Guizhen who is 86 years old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in ...

Iraq War vet Ellie Cooper finds herself caught up in a vast conspiracy against the Chinese government in Rock Paper Tiger, Lisa Brackmann's dynamite debut. She emerged from a process of overwriting ...