Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American Oriental

by Amy Sueyoshi

Book Overview

Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular.

Amy Sueyoshi draws on everything from newspapers to felony case files to oral histories in order to examine how whites' pursuit of gender and sexual fulfillment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083253
• ISBN13: 9780252083259
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"