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A fascinating and critical study of the Chinese Rescue Home, an iconic institution in Victoria, BC, where members of the Women’s Missionary Society taught domestic skills to Chinese and Japanese women believed to be prostitutes, slave girls, or to be at risk of falling into these roles.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Breaking Ground

1 Foundations of Stone: Victoria and the Chinese Rescue Home

2 Pillars of Domesticity and the “Chinese Problem”

3 Crossing the Threshold: Interrogating the Space and Place of Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home

4 Outside the Walls of the Home: Men, Marriage, and Morals in the Public Arena

5 Roofs, Rafters, and Refuge: The State, Race, and Child Custody

Conclusion: Race, Gender, and National Imaginings

Notes; Appendix: Sources and Methodology; Bibliography; Index

From Slave Girls to Salvation

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    Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
    Publication Date: 01/07/2016
    ISBN13: 9780774830577, 978-0774830577
    ISBN10: 0774830573
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    Gender studies: women and girls Sociology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A fascinating and critical study of the Chinese Rescue Home, an iconic institution in Victoria, BC, where members of the Women’s Missionary Society taught domestic skills to Chinese and Japanese women believed to be prostitutes, slave girls, or to be at risk of falling into these roles.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: Breaking Ground

    1 Foundations of Stone: Victoria and the Chinese Rescue Home

    2 Pillars of Domesticity and the “Chinese Problem”

    3 Crossing the Threshold: Interrogating the Space and Place of Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home

    4 Outside the Walls of the Home: Men, Marriage, and Morals in the Public Arena

    5 Roofs, Rafters, and Refuge: The State, Race, and Child Custody

    Conclusion: Race, Gender, and National Imaginings

    Notes; Appendix: Sources and Methodology; Bibliography; Index

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