CHAPTER FIVE From Foe to Friend: Geishas in Anglo-American Popular Culture before and after the Second World War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE Were They or Weren’t They? Geishas and Early Western Perceptions of the Morality of Japanese Women 12
7. CHAPTER TWO Geishas as Artefact: Artifice, Ideal Beauty and the Natural Woman 67
8. CHAPTER THREE Madame Butterfly’s Antecedents: The Women of the Ports and Japanese ‘Wives’ 118
9. CHAPTER FOUR Hara-Kiri! Sadayakko and Madame Hanako on the Western Stage 161
10. CHAPTER FIVE From Foe to Friend: Geishas in Anglo-American Popular Culture before and after the Second World War 211
11. CHAPTER SIX Bunny-boiler or Like a Virgin: Images of the Geisha in Late Twentieth-century America 257
12. Notes 285
13. Select Bibliography 313
14. Index 329