Japanese prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on individual names
- Introduction
- Across the Pacific rim : global dimensions of Japanese prostitution in the North American West
- Hardships at home : micro-level analysis of the social origins of Japanese prostitutes in the North American West
- Recruitment and passage : transpacific migration of Japanese prostitutes to the North American West
- Racialized, exploited, and excluded : the lives of Japanese prostitutes and barmaids in the North American West
- Breaking the shackles of oppression : Japanese prostitutes' and barmaids' response to sexual and economic exploitation
- The emergence of anti-Japanese prostitution reforms in the North American West from a transpacific and comparative perspective
- Conclusion
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.