 | Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border Subjects: Women immigrants -- Government policy -- United States -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History; Sex and law -- United States -- History; Since the late nineteenth century, immigrant womenOCOs 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(r)id shows how the U.S. border became a site not just for controlling female sexuality but also for contesting, constructing, and renegotiating sexual identity." |
