A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship

by Candice Lewis Bredbenner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520301080
• ISBN13: 9780520301085
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"