Were they or weren't they? : Geishas and early Western perceptions of the morality of Japanese Women -- Geishas as artefact : artifice, ideal beauty and the natural woman -- Madam Butterfly's antecedents : the women of the ports and Japanese 'wives' -- Hara-Kiri! : Sadayakko and Madame Hanako on the Western stage -- From foe to friend : Geishas in Anglo-American popular culture before and after the Second World War -- Bunny-boiler or like a virgin ; images of the Geisha in late twentieth-century America.
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