![]() | The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 Subjects: Women immigrants -- Government policy -- United States -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History; Citizenship -- United States -- History; Social role -- United States -- History; Emigration and immigration la; The Qualities of a Citizen 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. Martha Gardner is Assistant Professor of History at DePaul University. |
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