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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Asian American experiencePublication details: [Urbana] : University of Illinois Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252050268
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1075 .D573 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: "In the late 1890s, San Francisco --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"In the late 1890s, San Francisco --

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