The Ellis Island Snow Globe Book

Contents

Preface: Respect and Reverence....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xv
Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island....................1
1 Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island....................41
2 Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender....................67
3 The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch....................107
4 Green Woman, Race Matters....................130
5 A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever....................153
6 Immigrant Peddlers....................181
7 Product Packaging....................207
8 "Decide an Immigrant's Fate"....................239
Notes....................263
Bibliography....................311
Index....................325