Discriminating sex : white leisure and the making of the American "Oriental" /
Amy Sueyoshi.
- [Urbana] : University of Illinois Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- The Asian American experience .
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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Sex role--History--California--San Francisco--19th century. Marginality, Social--History--California--San Francisco--19th century. Leisure--History--California--San Francisco--19th century. Chinese Americans--History--California--San Francisco--19th century. Japanese Americans--History--California--San Francisco--19th century.