The Qualities of a Citizen : : Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 / / Martha Gardner.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- In the Shadow of the Law
- PART I: Wives, Mothers, and Maids
- Chapter One. Immigrants, Citizens, and Marriage
- Chapter Two. The Limits of Derivative Citizenship
- Chapter Three. Seeing Difference
- Chapter Four. Constructing a Moral Border
- Chapter Five. Likely to Become
- Chapter Six. Toil and Trouble
- PART II: Citizens, Residents, and Non-Americans
- Chapter Seven. When Americans Are Not Citizens
- Chapter Eight. When Citizens Are Not White
- Chapter Nine. Reproducing the Nation
- Chapter Ten. Women in Need
- Chapter Eleven. At Work in the Nation
- PART III: Marriage, Family, and the Law
- Chapter Twelve. Families, Made in America
- Chapter Thirteen. Marriage and Morality
- Conclusion. Regulating Belonging
- A Brief Guide to Archival Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index