ABSTRACT
The history of citizenship has often lost sight of women, understandably, since women have been so often excluded from the fraternal imaginings that constitute a citizenry. This essay hopes to fill in some of that spotty history by reviewing how female nationality came to be (re)defined at the turn of the century as a result of international conflict. In what was sensationalized as the Argentine “White Slave Trade/' European and Latin American women became more than simply vehicles for sexual traffic; they were the pretexts for defining one nation's sovereignty against another's.
