{"product_id":"entry-denied-eithne-luibheid-9780816638048","title":"Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e A revelatory examination of 150 years of sexuality-based discrimination against immigrants to the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 Luibh駟d shows how the U.S. border became a site not just for controlling female sexuality but also for contesting, constructing, and renegotiating sexual identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInitially targeting Chinese women, immigration control based on sexuality rapidly expanded to encompass every woman who sought entry to the United States. The particular cases Luibh駟d 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eithne Luibheid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816638047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816638048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 5.93w x 0.64d","brand":"Eithne Luibheid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076810404095,"sku":"9780816638048","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c3baa8d-0c41-4f46-8bc3-adb283e6c1fa.jpg?v=1685466921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/entry-denied-eithne-luibheid-9780816638048","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}