Which of the following is true of the practice of footbinding?a. was a Yuan form of torture that was copied during the Ming and Qing dynasties. b....

The best of these answers is B.  The practice of binding
the feet is associated with a decline in the status of women in
China.

The only other possible answer is D.  One can argue
that foot binding became more possible because women did not have to work and therefore
could afford to follow fashion and have their feet bound.  However, it is also true that
the fashion for footbinding spread out of the wealthy elites until most Chinese women
eventually had bound feet.

At the time that foot binding
first appeared, there were other indicators that women's status was going down.  For
example, the practice of keeping concubines was increasing at the time.  When taken
along with foot binding (which limited women's mobility and emphasized the idea that
they were sex objects), concubinage shows that women were becoming increasingly
subjugated.