Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Apologies to sensitive readers. Here's a bodyhack that we do not recommend. This foot-binding photo is the "most popular" photo on Yahoo News right now. Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of ...

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 ...

For most of us the idea of wearing a pair of shoes that are even one size too small is unbearable - but for centuries women in China bound their feet to make them appear smaller than their natural ...