From Slave Girls to Salvation
Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2015
- Category
- General, Post-Confederation (1867-), Philanthropy & Charity, Women's Studies, British Columbia (BC)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774830560
- Publish Date
- Nov 2015
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774830591
- Publish Date
- Nov 2015
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774830577
- Publish Date
- Jul 2016
- List Price
- $32.95
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For decades, the Chinese Rescue Home was a feature of the landscape of Victoria, British Columbia. Originally a refuge for Chinese prostitutes and slave girls rescued from captivity, it became a residence and school where the Methodist Women’s Missionary Society attempted to reform Chinese and Japanese girls and women. They did so, in part, by teaching them domestic skills meant to ease their integration into Western society. This book offers the first in-depth history and analysis of this iconic institution and expands our understanding of the complex interplay between gender, race, and class in BC during this time.
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Contributor Notes
Shelly D. Ikebuchi researches and teaches in Sociology at Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC. Her research takes a postcolonial/poststructural approach in order to examine the social, legal, and historical intersections of gender, race, and religion in a Canadian context
