Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border - Tapa blanda

Luibheid, Eithne

 
9780816638048: Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border
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ISBN 10: 0816638047 ISBN 13: 9780816638048
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2015

Sinopsis

A revelatory examination of 150 years of sexuality-based discrimination against immigrants to the United States.

Lesbians, prostitutes, women likely to have sex across racial lines, "brought to the United States for immoral purposes," or "arriving in a state of pregnancy"-national threats, one and all. 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.

Initially targeting Chinese women, immigration control based on sexuality rapidly expanded to encompass every woman who sought entry to the United States. The particular cases LuibhÉid examines-efforts to differentiate Chinese prostitutes from wives, the 1920s exclusion of Japanese wives to reduce the Japanese-American birthrate, the deportation of a Mexican woman on charges of lesbianism, the role of rape in mediating women’s border crossings today-challenge conventional accounts that attribute exclusion solely to prejudice or lack of information. This innovative work clearly links sexuality-based immigration exclusion to a dominant nationalism premised on sexual, gender, racial, and class hierarchies.

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Acerca del autor

Eithne LuibhÉid is assistant professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816638047
ISBN 13 
9780816638048
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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