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Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Clubhouses and guild halls -- Exhibiting the Arts and Crafts -- 'At Home' in artistic houses and studios -- 'Artistic' businesses and 'medieval' workshops -- Out of the guild hall and into the city -- Epilogue -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Women artisans --- Women artists --- Arts and crafts movement --- Artisanes --- Femmes artistes --- ART --- Arts and crafts movement. --- Women artisans. --- Women artists. --- Kunsthandwerkerin. --- History --- Histoire --- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). --- Arts and Crafts Movement --- Geschichte 1870-1940. --- Great Britain. --- England.

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"This history describes and analyses brothel prostitution in Singapore between 1870 and 1940. The vital role of Chinese and Japanese prostitutes in sustaining Singapore's pre-war economy and society has not been fully recognized. Starting with village backgrounds in rural China and Japan, and the hazards of the trade in women and children, the author follows the prostitutes through their encounters with brothel life in general, and in particular explores their routines and crises of earning, spending, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease, and death. A rare portrait of the daily lives of the ah ku and karayuki-san emerges. It is also a historical account of human nature, of human relationships compelled by the pride and prejudice of the human spirit. The author has used Coroners Inquests and Inquiries, statistical and other records, as well as photographs and oral reminiscences to resurrect the lives of the ah ku and karayuki-san." "By organizing the case material around themes relating to the workplace and working conditions, the author has converted a mass of depositions into an 'inner history', evoking a milieu and sentiment whose details were often clouded by an atmosphere of unease, irony, and danger: of Loh Sai Soh's fatal objection to Lam Loh Suh leaving the brothel: of Otoyo and her penalized client of two years, Lance-Corporal Albert Chacksfield; of the beautiful Duya Hadachi, her experiences of a relationship strained beyond endurance, and the deadly struggle between her paramours; and many, many others. Such ordinary people tumble from the pages of the records: they talk about choice of partners, love and betrayal, desperation and alienation, drawing us into their lives. These short vignettes turn out to have remarkable implications for the pace and texture of Ah Ku and Karayuki-san, and for stitching together a tapestry of poverty, sexual antagonisms, subordination, and conflict in the social history of prostitutes' and coolies' experiences. Combining a life-span approach with collective biography, the author has created a personal history of the ah ku and karayuki-san's times closely based on intimate experience, while still paying careful attention to the larger historical influences - the institutions, processes, and interactions - which determined their fates in Singapore. This social history is the companion volume to Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore (1880-1940)."--Jacket.

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