{"product_id":"the-qualities-of-a-citizen-martha-gardner-9780691144436","title":"The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Qualities of a Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The book takes us from the first federal immigration restrictions against Asian prostitutes in the 1870s to the immigration \"reform\" measures of the late 1960s. Throughout this period, topics such as morality, family, marriage, poverty, and nationality structured historical debates over women's immigration and citizenship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the border, women immigrants, immigration officials, social service providers, and federal judges argued the grounds on which women would be included within the nation. As interview transcripts and court documents reveal, when, where, and how women were welcomed into the country depended on their racial status, their roles in the family, and their work skills. Gender and race mattered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book emphasizes the comparative nature of racial ideologies in which the inclusion of one group often came with the exclusion of another. It explores how U.S. officials insisted on the link between race and gender in understanding America's peculiar brand of nationalism. It also serves as a social history of the law, detailing women's experiences and strategies, successes and failures, to belong to the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Gardner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691144435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691144436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d","brand":"Martha Gardner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059478687999,"sku":"9780691144436","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17ac5334-694f-4882-bd10-cd82fc8d07bd.jpg?v=1685058472","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-qualities-of-a-citizen-martha-gardner-9780691144436","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}