A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The creators of Wonder Woman had no interest in proving an actual link to the past. In some parts of the academic world, however,… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect with the… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an understanding of… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
