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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Unsubmissive Women Chinese Prostitutes in NineteenthCentury San Francisco
Author: Benson Tong
Unsubmissive Women explores the lives of Chinese girls and women who were shipped to San Francisco in the nineteenth century and forced into prostitution. They maintained their will to alter their fate, survived subjugation, and quite often escaped to establish families in the American West.
ISBN-13: 9780806132846
ISBN-10: 0806132841
Publication Date: 8/2000
Pages: 320
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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amichai avatar reviewed Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco on + 368 more book reviews
Somewhat dry in writing style, but informative nevertheless.


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