Entry Denied : Controlling Sexuality at the Border.
Title:
Entry Denied : Controlling Sexuality at the Border.
Author:
Luibhéid, Eithne.
ISBN:
9780816692828
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Power and Sexuality at the Border -- 1. Entry Denied: A History of U.S. Immigration Control -- 2. A Blueprint for Exclusion: The Page Law, Prostitution, and Discrimination against Chinese Women -- 3. Birthing a Nation: Race, Ethnicity, and Childbearing -- 4. Looking Like a Lesbian: Sexual Monitoring at the U.S.-Mexico Border -- 5. Rape, Asylum, and the U.S. Border Patrol -- Conclusion: Sexuality, Immigration, and Resistance -- Appendix: Sexuality Considerations in the Refugee/Asylum System -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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