Discriminating Sex

Amy Sueyoshi is the associate dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi.

"Discriminating Sex is a fascinating read, clearly written and carefully argued." --Journal of American History"Discriminating Sex will threaten some, infuriate others. Nonetheless, Sueyoshi's scholarship as well as the ingenuity of her narrative is sure to astonish as she demonstrates that Euro-American views of gender/sexuality—both their own and of people of color—are imaginaries formed in a crucible of desire, fear, and power."--Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, author of Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943–1945"Through meticulous archival research and careful argumentation, Amy Sueyoshi delivers a rich narrative and a bold argument....The book is a spelndid example of intersectional analysis that addresses the formation of gender and sexuality and the making of whiteness." --Southern California Quarterly

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Peculiar Obsession: The Chinese and Japanese Problem in the "International City"2. A Wide-Open Town? White and Heterosexual Supremacy in Permissive San Francisco3. "Deliver Me from the Brainy Woman": The Modern Woman a nd the Geisha4. Prostitution Proliferates: "Mrs. Flirty" and the Willing Chinese Slaves5. Managing Masculinity: The Heathen, the Samurai, and the "Best Oriental"6. Mindful Masquerades: White Privilege and the Politics of Dress7. "Conscience Aroused": Gender and Sexual Disinterest and the Rise of the OrientalEpilogue: Homosexuality as AsianNotesIndex