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Discriminating Sex will threaten some, infuriate others. Nonetheless, Sueyoshi's scholarship as well as the ingenuity of her narrative is sure to astonish as she demonstrates that Euro-American views of gender/sexuality both their own and of people of color are imaginaries formed in a crucible of desire, fear, and power.--Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, author of Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943 1945

A much-needed study of American Orientalism using an intersectional lens of race, gender, and sexuality. --H-Net Review Through meticulous archival research and careful argumentation, Amy Sueyoshi delivers a rich narrative and a bold argument....The book is a spelndid example of intersectional analysis that addresses the formation of gender and sexuality and the making of whiteness. --Southern California Quarterly Discriminating Sex will threaten some, infuriate others. Nonetheless, Sueyoshi's scholarship as well as the ingenuity of her narrative is sure to astonish as she demonstrates that Euro-American views of gender/sexuality--both their own and of people of color--are imaginaries formed in a crucible of desire, fear, and power. --Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, author of Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945 Discriminating Sex is a fascinating read, clearly written and carefully argued. --Journal of American History

A much-needed study of American Orientalism using an intersectional lens of race, gender, and sexuality. --H-Net Review Discriminating Sex will threaten some, infuriate others. Nonetheless, Sueyoshi's scholarship as well as the ingenuity of her narrative is sure to astonish as she demonstrates that Euro-American views of gender/sexuality--both their own and of people of color--are imaginaries formed in a crucible of desire, fear, and power. --Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, author of Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens: Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945 Through meticulous archival research and careful argumentation, Amy Sueyoshi delivers a rich narrative and a bold argument....The book is a spelndid example of intersectional analysis that addresses the formation of gender and sexuality and the making of whiteness. --Southern California Quarterly

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Amy Sueyoshi is the associate dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi.

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