The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a r

Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women's equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.

Did women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France, Annie Smart conten

The essays debate women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe in light of transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of t

In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized t