The Hidden Cost of Saying 'I Do'How a marriage license once acted as legal exile

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Hidden Architecture of Patriarchy

A 1907 law stripped American women of their citizenship simply for marrying foreign men. This legislation enforced the idea that a wife’s political allegiance was automatically subordinate to her husband’s, often leaving her stateless. The legacy of this act persists in modern immigration policies that continue to define women as dependents rather than individuals.