UNSUBMISSIVE WOMEN: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.
Edition: First printing.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Gold Rush-era Chinese prostitutes, which looks at these women as complex human beings rather than as commodities, as working women and objects of anti-Chinese sentiment. Based on census schedules, newspapers, government documents, literary sources, missionary records. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of drawings. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. xix, 300 pp,. ISBN: 0-806126531.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 44961
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