A Nationality of Her Own (eBook)

Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship

Candice Lewis Bredbenner (Autor)

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2024
308 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37818-6 (ISBN)

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In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and immigration policy in the United States during the late Progressive and interwar years, placing the history and impact of "derivative citizenship" within the broad context of the women's suffrage movement. Making impressive use of primary sources, and utilizing original documents from many leading women's reform organizations, government agencies, Congressional hearings, and federal litigation involving women's naturalization and expatriation, Candice Bredbenner provides a refreshing contemporary feminist perspective on key historical, political, and legal debates relating to citizenship, nationality, political empowerment, and their implications for women's legal status in the United States. This fascinating and well-constructed account contributes profoundly to an important but little-understood aspect of the women's rights movement in twentieth-century America.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: American women • Citizenship • Citizenship Studies • congressional hearings • derivative citizenship • Federal Government • federal litigation • feminist perspective • Gender • genealogy research • Immigration Policy • Interwar years • legal debates • Legal History • marriage • Nationalism • Nationality • nationality rights • Original documents • original study • Political Empowerment • Primary Sources • Progressive Era • Social History • social issues • Social Movements • us history • womens history • womens suffrage movement
• ISBN-10: 0-520-37818-0 / 0520378180
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-37818-6 / 9780520378186