ISBN:
9780252041785
,
9780252083259
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 212 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
The Asian American experience
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sueyoshi, Amy Haruko, 1971 - Discriminating sex
DDC:
305.309794/61
Keywords:
Sex role History 19th century
;
Marginality, Social History 19th century
;
Leisure History 19th century
;
Chinese Americans History 19th century
;
Japanese Americans History 19th century
;
San Francisco, Calif.
;
Chinesen
;
Japaner
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"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 women, and extramarital sex proliferated throughout the local newspapers, magazines, and theaters without condemnation. Yet as white people in the city explored and enacted new norms of romance and womanhood, increasing freedoms would be less accessible for Asians in America. White writers, lyricists, illustrators, and other producers of leisure culture projected anxieties of their own middle class gender and sexuality upon specifically Chinese and Japanese in news reports, short stories, and musicals. These characterizations would then conflate Chinese and Japanese, previously perceived as two separate races, into a single group. Amy Sueyoshi details how middle class white expansion of their own gender and sexual norms marked the formation of the pan-Asian "Oriental," a deeply sexual racialized stereotype, more than a hundred years ago" --
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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