According to Yen Le Espiritu in "'Americans Have a Different Attitude': Family, Sexuality, and Gender in Filipina American Lives," young women in immigrant families "face numerous restrictions on their autonomy, mobility, and personal decision-making" because "the control of women is one of the principal means of asserting __________________ ."

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Yen Le Espiritu argues that the control of women is one of the principal means of asserting moral superiority in immigrant families, which results in the imposition of numerous restrictions on young women's autonomy, mobility, and personal decision-making.