num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
titlecomplete: Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
genres: Sex Work, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr