Unsubmissive Women
Subtitle: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780806132846
Subjects: Sociology; Social Science; History - General History; General; California; Prostitution; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Women's Studies - General
First sentence: As early as 1851, residents of San Francisco recognized a drastic imbalance of the sexes in the Chinese population arriving in California.