‘위험한 관계’: 미국 이민자 남성의 정신질환과 섹슈얼리티, 1890년~1930년

• 영문명: “Dangerous Liaisons”: Mental Illness and Sexuality of Male Immigrants in America, 1890-1930
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 신지혜(Ji-Hye Shin)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제53집 1호, 63~102쪽, 전체 40쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.05.31

영문 초록

This essay takes mental illness as an analytic tool to explore male immigrants’ sexual experiences in America at the turn of the twentieth century. It focuses on immigrant men’s sexual “delusions,” in which they “imagined” intimate relationships with mostly white American women. This intriguing topic of research reveals the process by which male immigrants’ sexuality—sexual experiences and expressions—became not only a deviant act but also a tangible disease leading to mental hospital commitment and later deportation. Relying on the authority of legal and medical knowledge at immigration stations and mental hospitals, American society tried to locate, treat, and eliminate dangerous sexuality of male immigrants. This essay draws on contemporary reports on prison and hospital commitments, newspaper articles, deportation files from immigration stations (New York and California), and the Stockton State Hospital commitment registers (California) to reconstruct the experiences of male immigrants with alleged sexual “delusions” and reexamine the ways in which their racial and national differences shaped their encounters with American institutions.

목차

1. 서론

2. 이민자와 성적 일탈의 통제

3. 환자 기록에 나타난 남성 이민자의 섹슈얼리티 통제

4. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

이민자 남성 성적 망상 섹슈얼리티 정신병원 감옥 male immigrant sexual delusion sexuality mental hospital prison