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Book Reviews 116 Affilia Spring 2004 What ensues is “the business of therapy . . . [that] has emerged in [the 20th] century in the United States to deal with the psychological damage from liv- ing in a racist, sexist, and homophobic culture” (p. 160). Segrest’s travels, geographic and philosophical, have brought her from the alienation experienced by a lesbian girl growing up in the Southern United States to a sense of belonging rooted in a global identity. Having shared her journey, she invites the reader to join her in working for pluralis- tic coexistence and social justice that are grounded in a sense of human interconnectedness. MARGARET WALLER School of Social Work Arizona State University, Tempe Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. By Eithne Luibhéid. Minne- apolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 280 pp., $54.95 (hardbound), $19.95 (paper). In Entry Denied, Luibhéid demonstrates how women’s ability to enter the United States has been regulated based on sexuality and strict border- monitoring practices. By scrutinizing U.S. immigration policy, its origins, and its application, she shows how the “immigration apparatus has been a major site for the construction and regulation of immigrant women’s sexu- ality identities and activities” (p. xxvii). She http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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SAGE
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0886-1099
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1552-3020
DOI
10.1177/0886109904191016
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116 Affilia Spring 2004 What ensues is “the business of therapy . . . [that] has emerged in [the 20th] century in the United States to deal with the psychological damage from liv- ing in a racist, sexist, and homophobic culture” (p. 160). Segrest’s travels, geographic and philosophical, have brought her from the alienation experienced by a lesbian girl growing up in the Southern United States to a sense of belonging rooted in a global identity. Having shared her journey, she invites the reader to join her in working for pluralis- tic coexistence and social justice that are grounded in a sense of human interconnectedness. MARGARET WALLER School of Social Work Arizona State University, Tempe Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. By Eithne Luibhéid. Minne- apolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 280 pp., $54.95 (hardbound), $19.95 (paper). In Entry Denied, Luibhéid demonstrates how women’s ability to enter the United States has been regulated based on sexuality and strict border- monitoring practices. By scrutinizing U.S. immigration policy, its origins, and its application, she shows how the “immigration apparatus has been a major site for the construction and regulation of immigrant women’s sexu- ality identities and activities” (p. xxvii). She

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Published: Feb 1, 2004

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