In what way did foot binding serve to diminish the independence of chinese women by the end of the song era?
a. because foot binding could only be afforded by the elite, poorer women were assigned to a lower social status.
b. foot binding sufficiently crippled women to effectively confine their mobility to their household.
c. foot binding, although considered socially attractive, was condemned by neo-confucians, who felt others used the practice as a means of relegating chinese women to subordinate roles.
d. chinese women whose feet were bound were unable to use stirrups.

Einar sees alexandra every day across the room in his history class but has never talked with her. einar likes the way alexandra looks, including the way she dresses and how she wears her hair. he's even more attracted to her apparent intelligence and the way she handles herself in class discussions and during interactions with the instructor. he'd like to know more about her, so he asks one of his friends about her. einar, using a passive strategy to gain information about her, is probably in the preinteraction awareness stage of any relationship that might develop between them. t/f