ABSTRACT
MEN AND WOMEN both need physical education and exercise. They are as important as moral and intellectual education. However, Chinese women are not only excluded from physical development but also suffer physical torture. They have to pierce their ears, bind their waists and their feet and put on make-up. In the past they had no tradition of exercise so they did violence to their bodies through footbinding, inactivity and ignorance. Our women accept too readily the male ideal of feminine beauty as physical fragility because in their hearts they wish to please men.
