This article discusses some of the major issues which need to be examined
in a gender reading of citizenship. Its basic claim is that a comparative
study of citizenship should consider the issue of women’s citizenship not 4 FEMINIST REVIEW NO 57, AUTUMN 1997, PP. 4–27
only by contrast to that of men, but also in relation to women’s afliation
to dominant or subordinate groups, their ethnicity, origin and urban or
rural residence. It should also take into consideration global and transnational
positionings of these citizenships