It was founded by ten women of different nationalities under the leadership of Alicia Little in Shanghai in 1895.
The Natural Foot Society was strictly secular, and welcomed members of all religions and nationalities.
The Natural Foot Society campaigned by way of lecture tours, information, pamphlets and name lists.
It wrote a petition to the Regent Dowager Empress Cixi, said to be signed by all Western women in Asia.
Gradually more and more Chinese women joined the movement, and in 1907, the originally Western leadership transformed the leadership of the Natural Foot Society to Chinese women and acknowledge this to be a success of their campaign.