The Social Structure of the USSR: Recent Soviet Studies

by Murray Yanowitch

Book Overview

This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873324684
• ISBN13: 9780873324687
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary