| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Linda K. Kerber. No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang. 1998. Pp. xxiv, 405. $25.00.

T. H. Marshall, whose arguments about citizenship are once again receiving a great deal of attention, remarked how difficult it was to specify the general duties of citizens, except for the duty to work (i.e. engage in paid employment). But he failed to notice that men and women were differently situated with respect to this and more specific obligations. Fifty years later, relatively few discussions acknowledge that men's and women's citizenship have differed or recognize the significance of coverture for the history of women's rights and duties. 1

Linda K. Kerber's book is thus particularly welcome. She examines five political obligations: to give loyalty to the state, to avoid vagrancy, to pay taxes, to undertake jury service, and to perform military service. Kerber uncovers the full complexity of women's position. From the outset in the United States, women were both excluded from, or seen as "privileged" to be exempted from, some obligations that men had to perform as part of their citizenship, while required to fulfill others. She also indicates how problems still exist for women today in areas such as immigration, taxation, and military service. . . .

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