Cleansing motherhood: Hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1875–1900

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-34

  Shah, Nayan ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203984499-11     Document Type: Chapter

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