Entry denied : controlling sexuality at the border / Eithne Luibheid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luibhéid, Eithne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Government policy--United States--History.

Women immigrants.

Sex and law--United States--History.

Sex and law.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 253 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the late nineteenth century, immigrant women's sexuality has been viewed as a threat to national security, to be contained through strict border-monitoring practices. By scrutinizing this policy, its origins, and its application, Eithne Luibhéid shows how the U.S. border became a site not just for controlling female sexuality but also for contesting, constructing, and renegotiating sexual identity.

Contents:

Entry denied : a history of U.S. immigration control

A blueprint for exclusion : the Page law, prostitution, and discrimination against Chinese women

Birthing a nation : race, ethnicity, and childbearing

Looking like a lesbian : sexual monitoring at the U.S.-Mexico border

Rape, asylum, and the U.S. border patrol.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-238) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9282-3

OCLC:

191932317