Butterfly's sisters : the Geisha in western culture /
"In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women--and geishas in particular--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embody certain ideas about feminine sexuality, and...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Were they or weren't they?: Geishas and early Western perceptions of the morality of Japanese women
- Geishas as artefact: artifice, ideal beauty and the natural woman
- Madam Butterfly's antecedents: the women of the ports and Japanese 'wives'
- Hara-Kiri!: Sadayakko and Madame Hanako on the Western stage
- From foe to friend: geishas in Anglo-American popular culture before and after the Second World War
- Bunny-boiler or like a virgin: images of the geisha in late twentieth-century America.