Author: Kawaguchi, Yoko
Title: Butterfly's sisters : the Geisha in western culture.
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Dustjacket.ver. 342 pp.Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-328) and index. 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. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780300115215.

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