| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Candice Lewis Bredbenner. A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 294. $45.00.

No historian who has investigated women's issues during the interwar period can fail to be aware of the centrality of the debate over married women's citizenship rights. Surprisingly little, however, has been written on the topic. Candice Lewis Bredbenner gives us a detailed overview of the struggle for independent citizenship for American women from the early twentieth century to the mid-1930s. As the author correctly notes, the progress of this reform crusade was related both directly and indirectly to the impact of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment on the post-suffrage women's movement, and the trend toward increasingly restrictive immigration and naturalization legislation. . . .

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