This was largely an "upper class" practice, as it rendered women unable to engage in many activities and required servants to do many necessary tasks of daily life.
Foot binding is addressed in the novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lynn See, set in 17th Century China. This practice gradually ceased, and was at least nominally eliminated under Communism.
I cannot help but think about this as I try to recover at least some remnants of the active life I enjoyed before several vertebral fractures resulting from the medical mismanagement of the osteoporosis drug Prolia left me with pain when walking, standing or even sitting up.
And see: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3227755/Chinese-woman-84-recalls-agony-having-feet-broken-bound-just-six-years-old-women-big-flat-feet-laughed-at.html
The "privilege" I enjoyed of being treated at a famous university and being given an fabulously expensive (albeit quite hazardous) drug for osteoporosis was similarly more likely to happen to someone in comfortable economic circumstances, much like the well-born girls in China whose may have even agreed to have their feet bound and broken.
I think about these girls at times when the pain is really bad.
And, as I consider the role of Prolia in destroying my active life, this thought resonates!