Irving, Helen

Citizenship, Alienage and The Modern Constitutional Sate: A Gendered History - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016. - xiv, 289p.

To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took until 1957 for the international community to condemn the practice, with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Nationality of Married Women.

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The emergence of modern citizenship
Naturalisation
The impact of material denaturalisation
Marital citizenship and war
Marital deanaturalisation begins to unravel
The international response
What is a citizen?

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