Japanese prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920 / Kazuhiro Oharazeki.
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TextSeries: Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biographyPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780295806686
- 0295806680
- Prostitutes -- North America -- 19th century
- Prostitutes -- North America -- History -- 20th century
- Japanese American women -- North America -- 19th century
- Japanese American women -- North America -- History -- 20th century
- Women immigrants -- North America -- History -- 19th century
- Women immigrants -- North America -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies
- Japanese American women
- Prostitutes
- Women immigrants
- North America
- 1800-1999
- 306.74097 23
- HQ142
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 24, 2016).
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.
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