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Embracing the East: white women and American orientalism

Yoshihara, Mari, 1968-

Year: c2003.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

A Note on Japanese and Chinese Names

Introduction

PART ONE Materializing Asia

1 Asia as Spectacle and Commodity: The Feminization of Orientalist Consumption

2 Visualizing Orientalism: Women Artists' "Asian" Prints

PART TWO Performing Asia

3 "When I Don Your Silken Draperies": New Women's Performances of Asian Heroines

4 Racial Masquerade and Literary Orientalism: Amy Lowell's "Asian" Poetry

5 "Side by Side with These Men I Lie at Night": Sexuality and Agnes Smedley's Radicalism

PART THREE Authorizing Asia

6 "Popular Expert on China": Authority and Gender in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth

7 Re-gendering the Enemy: Culture and Gender in Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Embracing the East : white women and American orientalism Mari Yoshihara.

Author:

Yoshihara, Mari, 1968-

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Embracing the East : white women and American orientalism Mari Yoshihara.
Yoshihara, Mari, 1968-
Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2003.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02736

Subject Headings:

• Women, White -- Race identity -- United States
• Women, White -- United States -- Ethnic identity
• Orientalism -- Social aspects -- United States
• Public opinion -- United States
• East and West -- History
• Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American
• United States -- Race relations
• United States -- Ethnic relations
• Asia -- In literature

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