Discriminating sex : white leisure and the making of the American "Oriental" /

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"In the late 1890s, San Francisco -- a town reputed to be "wide and open"--Appeared to be a place where men and women could configure their intimate lives in ways not permissible in other parts of America. Conversations on high rates of divorce, an open rejection of marriage, mannish...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sueyoshi, Amy Haruko, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Colección:Asian American experience.
Temas:
1800-1899
Sex role > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Marginality, Social > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Leisure > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Chinese Americans > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Japanese Americans > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Rôle selon le sexe > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Loisir > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Chinese Americans
Japanese Americans
Leisure
Marginality, Social
Sex role
California > San Francisco
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A peculiar obsession : the Chinese and Japanese problem in the "international city"
  • A wide-open town? White and heterosexual supremacy in permissive San Francisco
  • "Deliver me from the brainy woman" : the modern woman and the geisha
  • Prostitution proliferates : "Mrs. Flirty" and the willing Chinese slaves
  • Managing masculinity : the heathen, the samurai, and the "best Oriental"
  • Mindful masquerades: white privilege and the politics of dress
  • "Conscience aroused" : gender and sexual disinterest and the rise of the oriental
  • Epilogue : homosexuality as Asian.

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