2. Regulating Bodies and Space

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Public Health, Race, and Citizenship 1
6. 1. Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown 17
7. 2. Regulating Bodies and Space 45
8. 3. Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 77
9. 4. White Women, Hygiene, and the Struggle for Respectable Domesticity 105
10. 5. Plague and Managing the Commercial City 120
11. 6. White Labor and the American Standard of Living 158
12. 7. Making Medical Borders at Angel Island 179
13. 8. Healthy Spaces, Healthy Conduct 204
14. 9. Reforming Chinatown 225
15. Conclusion: Norms as a Way of Life 251
16. Notes 259
17. Bibliography 333
18. Index 367