US friends, did you know about the 1907 Expatriation Act?
TIL that, in 1907, Congress enacted a statute that stripped women of citizenship if they married a non-citizen. SCOTUS upheld this law in 1915. It was fully reversed in 1940, but women who'd lost citizenship weren't eligible for redress if they'd ever resided abroad while married.
I know I have to stop reading things about our shaving cream sandwich of a world for a while, but for fudge's sake.
The cruelty we've *always* been fighting.
@MLClark
I didn't know about that ML. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I am honestly not surprised.
@MLClark Why am I less than surprised....
@MLClark now now little lady that was when America was a great, Christian nation and women were chattel who couldn’t vote. Now women are burdened with work, paying attention to the news, and even having education and opinions.
And in 2024 there are people who think like that. I’d like to say “stunning”, but I know better. I think some are so overwhelmed by modernity they fall for illusions of a simpler time. At the current pace last year was a simpler time.
I feel like we keep mixing up "simpler time" with "simple-headed" time - which is also, conveniently, most every time!
@MLClark and that is the repeated error some people make and others exploit. It certainly plays to rigidity in thinking, the All or Nothing approach to problem solving of the simple minded. And it’s not sufficient that they “go back” for themselves they have to outlaw or restrict that to which they succumb. Like that line about Calvinists being upset that someone somewhere is having fun.
Add that to the laws of coverture. Evil. Just plain evil.
Wow, that's some harsh herstory, although not at all surprising.
Here's a good, thorough article on the painstaking fight to win back natural citizenship after a 1906 proposal got rolling. #History #US #Feminism #HumanRights #Women #Politics
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-repatration