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Law Text Culture
Abstract
While ‘the citizen’ is believed to signify the universal, there is no universal sex. Because men monopolised the civic space until a century ago, the paradigmatic citizen has been constructed as male. Since enfranchisement, women have been wrestling with the phrase ‘women and citizenship’. For men, the and is read as conjunctive; for women, it remains disjunctive.
Recommended Citation
Thornton, M., Rapunzel and the lure of equal citizenship, Law Text Culture, 8, 2004.Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol8/iss1/11
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