'With Notice of the Consequences': Liberal Political Theory, Marriage, and Women's Citizenship in the United States

Augustine-Adams, Kif

doi:10.1080/13621020220118722

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Until 1922 in the United States, when the so-called Gigolo Act was overturned, American women (but not men) who married foreigners were singled out as undesirables, unfit for membership in the United States. They automatically lost their citizenship since the declared assumption was that, by marrying a foreigner, a woman transferred her allegiance and therefore implicitly consented to expatriation (Augustine-Adams 2002). Citizenship laws and mechanisms of revocation were formally and explicitly patriarchal.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, Gender, and the Revocation of Citizenship in the United States

Herzog

Adams

2017

Social Currents

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Taking away citizenship, as an extreme measure, defines its boundaries by specifying acts that are deemed nationally desirable and undesirable. The history of expatriation in the United States serves as a case study for the interaction between gender and the limits of modern citizenship status. Citizenship laws and mechanisms of revocation in the United States were explicitly patriarchal until 1922; until then, women lost their citizenship on marriage to a foreign citizen. The laws regarding revocation of citizenship have continued to target prototypically masculine behaviors, particularly those bearing on the military defense of the state. Since the 1920s moment, women in the United States exist in a contradictory citizenship regime: paradoxically endowed with relative immunity from certain forms of regulation and punishment as their status as active political individuals remains a site of struggle.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%