| TITLE: |
Butterfly's sisters : the Geisha in western culture / Yoko Kawaguchi. |
| AUTHOR: |
Kawaguchi, Yoko. |
| PUBLISHED: |
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
x, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-328) and index |
| NOTES: |
Were they or weren't they?: Geishas and early Western perceptions of the morality of Japanese women -- |
| NOTES: |
Geishas as artefact: artifice, |
| NOTES: |
ideal beauty and the natural woman --Madam Butterfly's antecedents: the women of the ports and Japanese 'wives' -- |
| NOTES: |
Hara-Kiri!: Sadayakko and Madame Hanako on the Western stage -- |
| NOTES: |
From foe to friend: geishas in Anglo-American popular culture before and after the Second World War -- |
| NOTES: |
Bunny-boiler or like a virgin: images of the geisha in late twentieth-century America. |
| SUBJECT: |
Geishas --History. |
| SUBJECT: |
Civilization, Western. |
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