Left Politics and the Literary Profession

by Lennard J. Davis

Book Overview

The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geisha houses by families in desperate poverty, deprived of freedom and identity, these young women lived in a world of sex for sale, unadorned by the trappings of wealth and celebrity. Sayo Masuda has written the first full-length autobiography of a former hot-springs-resort...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000OPCWQG
• ISBN13: 9780231065672
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher